encryption
Security-oriented Blackphone specifications published
SGP Technologies SA, the Switzerland-based joint venture of Silent Circle and Geeksphone behind Blackphone, announced the specifications of its eagerly awaited privacy-minded …
Airbus Group debuts SCADA research project to mitigate ICS vulnerabilities
Airbus Group will highlight this week at Infosecurity Europe 2014 its range of technologies, services and a cutting edge research project to help governments and industry deal …
AOL breach confirmed, bigger than initially thought
Recent spam emails apparently sent from AOL email addresses and hawking diet products are a direct consequence of a breach of the company’s networks and systems, AOL has …
Data encryption for secure communications
IGUANA Security launched the latest addition to its family of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) solutions at Infosecurity Europe 2014. IGUANAGreen is a commercial …
NIST drops NSA-backed algorithm from encryption recommendations
“Following a public comment period and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on …
Heartbleed attacker hijacked VPN active user sessions
As the number of the most popular websites that still haven’t patched their servers against the Heartbleed exploit continues to diminish (go here for an up-to-date list …
OpenBSD team forks OpenSSL to create safer SSL/TLS library
For all the talk about how something should be done to fix OpenSSL so that a Heartbleed situation is never again repeated, there has been little to no concrete action so far. …
A guide to cloud encryption and tokenization
Cloud adoption shows every sign of continuing to grow. The sharing of resources helps businesses achieve savings and agility based on economies of scale but there’s a …
Tor relays vulnerable to Heartbleed dropped from anonymity network
Thanks to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, the Tor anonymity network is set to temporarily lose around “12 per cent of the exit capacity and 12 per cent of the guard …
Secure email service Lavaboom launches
Lavaboom, a German secure email service that aims to provide users with the most secure email account they will ever own (their words), will go into private beta around …
Heartbleed threatens mobile users
As time passes, it becomes more and more obvious that almost no-one is safe from the danger created by the existence of the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug. In the days after the …
Heartbleed should jumpstart important security changes
With impacts on an estimated 60-70% of websites, Heartbleed is easily the security vulnerability with the highest degree of potential impact ever. There’s lots of good …