This course material is a supplement to Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy by Gábor Békés (CEU) and Gábor Kézdi (U. Michigan), Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Abstract: Cryptanalysis refers to the study of methods and techniques for obtaining information from encrypted texts. Nowadays, the term cryptanalysis more generally refers to the analysis of ...

The Caesar Act was imposed in 2019 in response to widespread and systematic violations of human rights by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad. By Abdi Latif Dahir and Reham Mourshed ...

Cipher Mining has already begun shifting from pure Bitcoin mining toward AI and high‑performance computing data centers, backed by long-term hyperscale leasing agreements with Amazon Web Services and ...

RC4 has been exploited in high-profile attacks across enterprise Windows networks Kerberoasting exploits weaknesses in Active Directory, allowing attackers to perform offline password cracking ...

The US Congress has approved the repeal of sweeping Syria sanctions, a package devised to punish former dictator Bashar al-Assad, but which officials say is now hindering the fragile state’s efforts ...

Cipher Mining Inc (NASDAQ: CIFR) shares slipped on Monday as Bitcoin's (CRYPTO: BTC) pullback weighed on crypto‑linked names and momentum stocks more broadly. What Happened: Bitcoin dropped below ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...