encryption
Why PKI will secure the Internet of Things for years to come
A long, long time ago, nearly 4,000 years, in a land far, far away ancient cryptography was born. The Place? Egypt. It is there historians believe the technique was invented …
Researchers find critical flaws in SecurEnvoy SecurMail, patch now!
If you’re a user of SecurEnvoy SecurMail and you haven’t yet implemented the latest patch, do so now – or risk getting your encrypted emails read by …
Wire shares results of independent security audit of its secure messaging apps
When I last spoke to Alan Duric, co-founder and (at the time) CEO of the company developing secure messaging application Wire, he stressed the importance of independent and …
Chrome will mark HTTP pages as “not secure”
Starting with Chrome 68, which is scheduled to be released in July 2018, Google will explicitly mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”: According to Google’s numbers, 68% …
DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app
DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. …
US hospital paid $55,000 ransom to hackers despite having backups
A US hospital has decided to pay a ransom of 4 bitcoin to regain access to some 1,400 files locked by attackers. Hancock Health, a regional hospital based in Greenfield, …
Skype users are finally getting end-to-end encryption
The move was announced on Thursday by Open Whisper Systems, the software organization behind the open source Signal Protocol, which has been implemented by Microsoft to offer …
WhatsApp, Signal group chats not as secure as users might believe
Researchers have discovered flaws in the way WhatsApp, Signal, and Threema messaging apps handle secure (encrypted) group communication, which could result in unauthorized …
Why cryptography is much harder than software engineers think
The recent ROCA vulnerability (CVE-2017-15361) raises some important issues about the design of secure cryptographic software. The vulnerability is not in this case an obvious …
Why phishers love HTTPS
As more and more sites switch to HTTPS, the number of phishing sites hosted on HTTPS domains is also increasing. “In the third quarter of 2017, we observed nearly a …
New Amazon S3 encryption and security features introduced
Amazon Web Services has announced the availability of five new encryption and security features for the Amazon S3 cloud storage service. These include: Default object …
The race to quantum supremacy and its cybersecurity impact
Quantum computing uses the power of atoms to perform memory and processing tasks and remains a theoretical concept. However, it is widely believed that its creation is …