The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced on Monday that it has removed the Dual_EC_DRBG, or Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator from its draft guidance on random number generators. After it was reported that RSA accepted $10 million from the NSA to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in its BSAFE products, […]

A few weeks ago, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued the final version of a new set of cyber security guidelines designed to help critical infrastructure providers better protect themselves against attacks. The framework was the result of an executive order issued by President Barack Obama last year that in part directed […]