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Feds to web firms: Hand over encryption keys and user passwords
The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users’ account passwords …
TOR-based botnets on the rise
Keeping their botnet’s C&C centers online is crucial for bot herders, so that they can keep taking advantage of the computers they zombified. But given that cyber …
Bit9 Introduces enterprise Mac security
Business users are driving demand for Macs across the enterprise. Until now, the few enterprise security products available for the Mac were dependent on malware signatures …
SIM encryption flaw opens 500M users to attack
A flaw in the encryption technology used by some SIM cards can allow attackers to make the target phone download malicious apps and even effectively clone a user’s card …
Apricorn unveils FIPS 140-2 encrypted USB 3.0 drive
Apricorn debuted its Aegis Padlock Fortress, a secure drive designed specifically for the stringent requirements of the Government, Military and Healthcare. The first USB 3.0 …
Hijacking connected cars with a $25 tool
A presentation by two Spanish researchers scheduled to take place later this month at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas will apparently prove that hijacking modern cars …
Metaforic released secure cryptography solution WhiteBox
Metaforic announced the general release of WhiteBox, a secure cryptography solution for mobile financial, conditional access, BYOD and embedded communications and payments. …
Pirate Bay founder raising money for new encrypted messaging app
Peter Sunde, one of the Pirate Bay co-founders, is looking to enter the encrypted messaging market. Spurred by the recent revelations about the US government’s PRISM …
New USB flash drives from SanDisk
SanDisk announced three USB flash drives, the SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0, Cruzer Orbit and Cruzer Force USB flash drives. All three drives are ideal for secure storage, allowing …
US Emergency Alerting System vulnerable to attack
IOActive has discovered vulnerabilities in the Emergency Alerting System (EAS) which is widely used by TV and radio stations across the United States. They uncovered the …
Critical Cryptocat group chat bug fixed
A critical security vulnerability in Cryptocat versions older than 2.0.42 has been patched and developers are urging users to update to the latest available version of the …
Attitudes towards data protection and encryption in the cloud
An increasing number of organizations are transferring sensitive or confidential data to the cloud despite concerns over data protection, according to the Ponemon Institute. …
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