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Researchers devise passive attacks for identifying Tor hidden services

A group of MIT researchers have devised two attacks that could identify, with a high degree of certainty (88%), an anonymous hidden service or client.Hidden services are …

Cloud encryption and tokenization trends in financial services

The adoption of the cloud continues to grow rapidly with Gartner forecasting $282 billion in spending by 2018.“As financial services adopt the cloud, strict compliance …

OpenSSH bug enables attackers to brute-force their way into poorly configured servers

A vulnerability in the popular secure remote access software OpenSSH can be exploited by attackers to try to brute-force their way into the connection and access …

Hardware encryption market revenue to reach $36.4 billion by end of 2015

There are a variety of ways to secure data, either on the perimeter or within the LAN, but the most fundamental method in a defense-in-depth model is hardware encryption. The …

Is this the death knell for the RC4 encryption algorithm?

It has been known for quite some time that the RC4 cryptographic cypher – used in popular Internet protocols such as TLS and HTTPS – is vulnerable to attack, but …

TeslaCrypt 2.0 makes it impossible to decrypt affected files

“Kaspersky Lab has detected curious behavior in a new threat from the TeslaCrypt ransomware encryptor family. In version 2.0 of the Trojan notorious for infecting …

Mobile SSL failures: More common than they should be

Securing your mobile application traffic is apparently more difficult than it should be, as researchers Anthony Trummer and Tushar Dalvi discovered when looking into SSL/TLS …

FBI director insists Silicon Valley can solve the encryption dilemma – if they try hard enough

On Wednesday, the US Senate Judiciary Committee got to hear from FBI director James Comey and DOJ Deputy Attorney General Sally Quillian Yates on how end-to-end encryption …

Severe OpenSSL bug that allows certificate forgery has been plugged

The wait is over: the OpenSSL Project has issued security updates for the popular open-source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols, and has shared some details about …

Bitglass granted patent on searchable cloud encryption

Bitglass has been granted a patent for its searchable full-strength 256-bit AES encryption for cloud applications. The technology, covered by US Patent 9,047,480, is …

Security experts explain to US, UK governments why mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea

Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee …

Let’s Encrypt CA releases transparency report before its first certificate

The non-profit CA launched by the EFF, Mozilla and several other businesses and organizations is determined to gain and retain users’ trust. After hiring outside experts …

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