A hash is kinda trash. Or, more precisely, not only will hashing data not anonymize it, but regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission, consider hashed identifiers to be personal information.

Keeping your details safe in a database is the least a site can do, but password security is complex. Here’s what it all means From Yahoo, MySpace and TalkTalk to Ashley Madison and Adult Friend ...

NIST is planning a competition to develop one or more cryptographic 'hash' algorithms to augment and revise the current Secure Hash Standard (Federal Information Processing Standard 180-2). The ...

Locality-sensitive hashing is a technique for approximate similarity search, but fixed thresholds and analog encoding inefficiencies have limited its hardware implementation. This work introduces a ...

A cryptocurrency marketplace called NiceHash has suffered a security breach that left its bitcoin wallet tens of millions of dollars lighter. Slovenia-based NiceHash connects miners, or people selling ...

Scott’s Mining Conference, hosted in Round Rock, Texas on February 7 and 8, featured a panel entitled “Immersion” with five panelists: David Branscum (director of business development at Midas ...