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Social Engineering Exposes Vulnerability in Corporate Networks

A clever phone call can be all it takes to breach a corporate network - just ask Brandon Dixon, a former penetration tester who convinced an IT security team to hand over root access by pretending to be their boss. With a simple social engineering trick, Dixon was able to reset his "password" and gain unrestricted access…

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Social Engineering Exposes Vulnerability in Corporate Networks

Learn how social engineering exposes corporate network vulnerabilities and discover how to protect your business from devastating attacks - read the expert insights now.

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Why does the challenge need to be prime in Wesolowski's succinct argument of $y=x^{e}$?

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Why does the challenge need to be prime in Wesolowski's succinct argument of $y=x^{e}$?

In Wesolowski's VDF (verifiable delay function) a prover produces a pair $(x, y)$ and needs to argue to the verifier that the pair satisfies $y = x^e \pmod N$ for some $e$ computable to both. The

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