Our cryptography project was designed to make complex security concepts clear, visual, and practical especially for learners who struggle to connect everyday password habits with the underlying math and mechanisms that keep systems secure. The walkthrough serves as the companion guide to the narrative video, breaking each concept into digestible steps. We start by grounding …
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By: Adwoa Opare-Ansah, Jaz Parmar, & Simon Truong Aide: Walkthrough:
Every year, billions of passwords leak online not because attackers are guessing them one by one, but because the systems meant to protect those passwords fail in predictable, preventable ways. Our graduate teaching‑aide project, Cracking the Habit: A Cryptographic Look at Everyday Password Failures, takes a closer look at those failures and the cryptography that …
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SolarWinds is a software company whose products are used by organisations to monitor and manage IT infrastructure. One of its key products the Orion platform (which was named the SolarWinds Platform in 2022), provided organisations with tools for monitoring networked systems and infrastructure. The importance of Orion made it an attractive target for attackers. The …
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Imagine waking up one holiday morning in the peak of winter with freezing air inside the bedroom which turns your breath into tiny white clouds. Shivering, your turn the thermostat dial but realize the heat isn’t turning on, your radiators stay dead cold as ice and outside, the temperature is above the roof, plunging past …
Fig 1. Image from TechNewsWorld In August 2026, Carhartt suffered a massive data breach of what was initially thought to be 24.9 million unique email addresses, addresses, names, phone numbers and physical addresses. ShinyHunters, a hacking group who claimed responsibility for the attack, demanded a payment of roughly $3.3 million USD in return for not …
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Source: 2026 Canvas Breach In May 2026, the University of Alberta found itself caught in a global cybersecurity incident involving Instructure, the company behind the widely used Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). While the breach impacted approximately 9,000 institutions and 275 million people globally, it hit particularly close to home for students and faculty right …
In modern applications, authentication tokens are digital keys that prove who you are so you don’t have to log in over and over again. They’re the reason you can stay signed into an app without re-entering your username and password every few minutes, and the reason you can move between your email, cloud storage, streaming …
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Everyone enjoys the idea of a vacation trip. Imagine the excitement you feel when pack your bags, make sure your documents are ready (Boarding passes and Passport). You head down to the airport, bags all checked in, waiting to board. Suddenly, there’s a lot of chatter going on in the airport amidst the airline staff …
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