The Hacker News

Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens

The module targets Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Continue, and Windsurf. It also harvests API keys for nine large language models (LLM) providers: ...
IEEE

Secure kNN for Distributed Cloud Environment Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Abstract: Privacy-preserving k-nearest neighbor (PPkNN) classification for multiple clouds enables categorizing queried data into a class in keeping with data privacy ...
ZDNet

7 apps I use to lock down, encrypt, and store my private files - and most are free

File and folder security is crucial in this day and age. There are apps you can use to heighten the security of your files. These apps are free and available for desktop and mobile devices. The need ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
GitHub

Windows Certificate Manager Toolkit

Note: Using LocalMachine\Root ensures full trust for signature validation. The LocalMachine store ensures the SYSTEM account (used for scheduled renewals) also trusts the certificate. wincertmanager/ ...
IEEE

Content-Aware Tunable Selective Encryption for HEVC Using Sine-Modular Chaotification Model

Abstract: Existing High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) selective encryption algorithms only consider the encoding characteristics of syntax elements to keep format compliance, but ignore the semantic ...