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Bad news for Cryptocat as it debuts Encrypted Facebook Chat

Mere days after Cryptocat creator Nadim Kobeissi announced that the latest update of the popular software will allow Facebook users to use encrypted chat, the social network …

John McAfee releases secure messaging app

John McAfee (and, alternatively, his name) has long been a fixture in the security market. And, finally, after a considerable hiatus and crazy happenings, the man is back with …

Mobile phone security transformed with 4 new encryption apps

Following the high profile breaches of mobile phone security that have hit the headlines in recent years, a British company has launched a new range of mobile phone apps that …

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and review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has removed a cryptographic algorithm from its draft guidance on …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 …

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