encryption

Yesterday’s report by The Intercept hit the information security community like a ton of bricks, as a set of documents from Edward Snowden’s trove indicate that …

With a simple search, John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, has discovered with it more than 250,000 routers that share the same SSH key, meaning they also share the same …

GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows to encrypt and sign your data and communication, features a versatile key management system as …

An article by Julia Angwin on ProPublica has become the catalyst for an avalanche of much needed donations for the survival of Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG), a free email encryption …

As part of a Harvard computer science symposium, Bruce Schneier had a public conversation with Edward Snowden. The topics were largely technical, ranging from cryptography to …

A number of popular VPN services are the latest target of China’s Great Firewall, including Astrill, StrongVPN and Golden Frog’s VyprVPN. Virtual Private Networks …

When British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Tuesday his plan to introduce new surveillance powers in the UK by forcing businesses to plant backdoors in their …

Canada-base Peerio has released the beta version of an app of the same name which combines secure messaging, file sharing and storage, and adds encryption to it. Peerio is …

On Tuesday, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced his plan to introduce new surveillance powers in the UK, and ban applications that use end-to-end encryption. Here …

The OpenSSL Project has released updates for the popular eponymous open-source library that implements the SSL and TLS protocols. The new releases – 1.0.1k, 1.0.0p and …

A new piece of Point-of-Sale RAM scraping malware has been submitted to VirusTotal and analyzed by researchers, who found that it’s a cross between two older and …

It’s holiday shopping season again, and consumers will join the rush to buy devices and accessories for loved ones. They’ll scoop up phones and tablets, plus …