Target’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen and secured with 3DES encryption has experts concerned because of the age of the algorithm and the availability of stronger options. Target ...

In a recent interview, Andrew Komarov, CEO of U.S. security startup IntelCrawler, described the malware used in the Target data breach to be a dump-memory-scraper that infected Target’s Windows-based ...

Researchers have found a new way to recover and decrypt authentication cookies from 3DES and Blowfish protected traffic. In response, OpenSSL is expected to deprecate 3DES’ designation from high to ...

I'm testing encrypting emails from Outlook 2010. I'm using self signed certs issued from our internal CA. The resulting encrypted emails are only showing that the encryption layer is 3DES. (By ...

The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is an algorithm used for encrypting computer data. It was developed in the 1970s by IBM with the support of the National Security Agency for the National Institute ...