In two landmark rulings Thursday, the Washington State Supreme Court has upheld the Secretary of State’s signature validation process, reaffirming the legality of the state’s procedures for verifying ...

Hackers try to find novel ways to circumvent or under­mine data encryption schemes all the time. But at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Purdue University researcher Sze ...

SALEM, Ore. — The recent decision by a federal judge to block a law allowing gay couples to form civil unions in Oregon has cast a spotlight on whether a signature on a petition can be equated to a ...

Code signing is a mechanism by which software manufacturers assure their consumers that they are running legitimate software, signed by its manufacturer via cryptography. This ensures that the ...

Security researchers have warned for many years that failure to digitally sign and validate the low-level firmware found in computers can lead to damaging compromises that are very hard to detect and ...