encryption

Netflix confirms it will start blocking proxies and unblockers

January 19, 2016

Netflix recently expanded its streaming services to nearly every country in the world. This good news for potential users in those countries has dampened the spirits of those …

Flaw allows malicious OpenSSH servers to steal users’ private SSH keys

January 15, 2016

Qualys researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities in the popular OpenSSH implementation of the secure shell protocol, one of which (CVE-2016-0777) could be exploited by …

SLOTH attacks weaken secure protocols because they still use MD5 and SHA-1

January 8, 2016

Researchers Karthikeyan Bhargavan and Gaëtan Leurent from INRIA, the French national research institute for computer science, have discovered a new class of transcript …

HTTPS Bicycle attack reveals password length, allows easier brute-forcing

January 7, 2016

Dutch security researcher Guido Vranken has come up with a new attack that could allow attackers to discover the length of a user’s password – and therefore make …

Kingston releases encrypted USB with keypad access

January 7, 2016

Kingston released the DataTraveler 2000 encrypted USB 3.0 Flash drive, which offers hardware encryption and PIN protection with access through an onboard alphanumeric keypad. …

The Tor Project announces bug bounty program

January 4, 2016

Representatives of the Tor Project, the non-profit organization that maintains the software needed for using the Tor anonymity network and operates the Onion network, have …

New date for migrating off vulnerable SSL and early TLS encryption

December 21, 2015

Following significant feedback from the global PCI community and security experts, the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) announced a change to the …

Human error reduces security offered by encryption apps

December 18, 2015

Crypto phones – whether they are hardware devices or mobile apps – are a great way to assure that your VoIP communications remain private, but the security and …

New threats will demand new approaches such as micro-segmentation and quantum encryption

December 16, 2015

Leading security professionals around the world will adopt a new mindset in 2016, embracing advanced approaches such as micro-segmentation to counter increasingly …

How to eliminate encryption silos

December 15, 2015

Working in the encryption business, you’ll quickly learn that there are a number of problems that organizations can run into while deploying the technology. The …

Vuvuzela: An untraceable messaging system aimed at thwarting powerful adversaries

December 14, 2015

A group of scientists from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) believe they have created an effective and scalable text-messaging system …

End-to-end encrypted database ZeroDB is now open source

December 10, 2015

ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database whose release was announced earlier this year, is now open source. Developers MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov changed the license …