encryption

Microsoft has released a security advisory on Thursday, confirming that all supported releases of Microsoft Windows are vulnerable to the recently documented FREAK (Factoring …

A flaw in OpenSSL and Apple’s Secure Transport implementation of SSL and TLS protocols is putting millions of Android and Apple device users as well as visitors of …

Open Whisper Systems has released a new version of Signal, its free, open source iOS app for end-to-end encrypted voice calls. As announced in July last year, when the first …

Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity. Several …

Yesterday’s report by The Intercept hit the information security community like a ton of bricks, as a set of documents from Edward Snowden’s trove indicate that …

With a simple search, John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, has discovered with it more than 250,000 routers that share the same SSH key, meaning they also share the same …

GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as …

An article by Julia Angwin on ProPublica has become the catalyst for an avalanche of much needed donations for the survival of Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), a free email encryption …

As part of a Harvard computer science symposium, Bruce Schneier had a public conversation with Edward Snowden. The topics were largely technical, ranging from cryptography to …

A number of popular VPN services are the latest target of China’s Great Firewall, including Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog’s VyprVPN. Virtual Private Networks …

When British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Tuesday his plan to introduce new surveillance powers in the UK by forcing businesses to plant backdoors in their …

Canada-base Peerio has released the beta version of an app of the same name which combines secure messaging, file sharing and storage, and adds encryption to it. Peerio is …