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The Nigeria Cybersecurity Summit gathers CISOs from leading enterprises, technology leaders, policy makers and decision makers to discuss infosec.

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The original announcement that BlackBerry was ending legacy OS support came in September 2020. This week the company issued a reminder along with an extensive FAQ outlining...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an end to identity-based discrimination, among other measures, to prevent genocide.

Filtering refers to an operation to determine whether the concerned data should be accepted and transferred, or be blocked and marked as a malicious traffic flow. It mitigates the inter-domain bandwidth overhead, local computational cost and storage cost for data identification. In many sensitive applications, the identity of the data provider needs to be hidden. This creates challenges how to filter the transmitted data packet with an encrypted form. It is non-trivial to hide this data provider...

Abstract The concept of proxy re-encryption (PRE) dates back to the work of Blaze, Bleumer, and Strauss in 1998. PRE offers delegation of decryption rights, i.e., it securely enables the re-encryption of ciphertexts from one key to another, without relying on trusted parties. PRE allows a semi-trusted third party termed as a “proxy” to securely divert encrypted files of user A (delegator) to user B (delegatee) without revealing any information about the underlying files to the proxy. To eli...