encryption

Emergency alert systems used across the US can be easily hijacked

April 10, 2018

A vulnerability affecting emergency alert systems supplied by ATI Systems, one of the leading suppliers of warning sirens in the USA, could be exploited remotely via radio …

Russian government asks court to allow them to block Telegram

April 9, 2018

Russian communications regulator’s fight to block the Telegram encrypted messaging service continues. Telegram (the company) has been fighting the Roskomnadzor – …

Cloudflare launches privacy-protecting DNS service

April 3, 2018

If you’ve been offline during the weekend you might have missed Cloudflare announcing a new privacy-oriented consumer DNS service, hosted at the following IP addresses: …

Businesses suspect their mobile workers are being hacked

March 29, 2018

More than half (57%) of organisations suspect their mobile workers have been hacked or caused a mobile security issue in the last 12 months, according to the iPass Mobile …

Why PKI will secure the Internet of Things for years to come

March 19, 2018

A long, long time ago, nearly 4,000 years, in a land far, far away ancient cryptography was born. The Place? Egypt. It is there historians believe the technique was invented …

Researchers find critical flaws in SecurEnvoy SecurMail, patch now!

March 13, 2018

If you’re a user of SecurEnvoy SecurMail and you haven’t yet implemented the latest patch, do so now – or risk getting your encrypted emails read by …

Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps

March 7, 2018

When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and …

Chrome will mark HTTP pages as “not secure”

February 9, 2018

Starting with Chrome 68, which is scheduled to be released in July 2018, Google will explicitly mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”: According to Google’s numbers, 68% …

DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app

January 24, 2018

DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. …

US hospital paid $55,000 ransom to hackers despite having backups

January 17, 2018

A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, …

Skype users are finally getting end-to-end encryption

January 12, 2018

The move was announced on Thursday by Open Whisper Systems, the software organization behind the open source Signal Protocol, which has been implemented by Microsoft to offer …

WhatsApp, Signal group chats not as secure as users might believe

January 11, 2018

Researchers have discovered flaws in the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema messaging apps handle secure (encrypted) group communication, which could result in unauthorized …