encryption
NSA employee will remain as co-chair on crypto standards group
NSA employee Kevin Igoe will continue to be one of the two co-chairs of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG), which helps the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) review …
Deadly new ransomware soon to be released?
As disruptive as Cryptolocker is, there’s a possibility that an even deadlier type of ransomware will soon be targeting unsuspecting users. White-hat security research …
Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source
In March 2013, a Japanese student by the name of Daiyuu Nobori set up VPN Gate, a free VPN service that he hoped would be used by Internet users who wish to avoid their …
OpenSSL site hack wasn’t the result of vulnerability exploitation
After a few days of speculations fuelled by a not clear enough explanation, the OpenSSL Foundation has confirmed that the late December defacement of its Openssl.org website …
Sophisticated and targeted attacks on the horizon
As 2013 draws to a close, Gavin Millard a security expert from Tripwire gazes into his crystal ball and predicts what 2014 has in store for us. Targeted mobile attacks will …
Will 2014 be the year of encryption?
Security experts at Unisys predicted that the coming year will usher in broad-based adoption of encryption as enterprises respond to recent disclosures that unencrypted data …
BitTorrent introduces secure, serverless messaging system
Back in September, the company behind the BitTorrent P2P protocol and the BitTorrent and μTorrent file-sharing software announced that they have started working on …
Bomb-threatening student caught because he used Tor on school Wi-Fi
20-year-old Harvard student Eldo Kim has been accused of sending fake bomb threats to Harvard University on Monday. What makes this case interesting is that he used the Tor …
FreeBSD ditches suspect hardware-based crypto
Buried in the “Security” section of a report on the FreeBSD Developer Summit held in September in Malta is a small but important note about the FreeBSD …
CyanogenMod introduces built-in SMS encryption
CyanogenMod developers have announced the fruit of several months of labor headed by Open Whisper Systems’ Moxie Marlinspike: a seamless implementation of TextSecure, …
Microsoft promises wide-reaching encryption, more transparency
It took them a while, but Microsoft is finally announcing a concentrated effort to protect its customers and their data from unauthorised government surveillance. “Like …
Can we expect a cyberwar resurgence?
Neohapsis security experts predict that next year there will be a cyberwar resurgence, the cloud will begin to show its hidden costs, and privacy will continue to lose in the …
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