encryption

Open Whisper Systems has released Flock, a private cloud service for securely and privately syncing contacts and calendars between multiple mobile Android devices, and is …

At the Hackers on Planet Earth X (HOPE X) conference held this weekend in New York, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden called for hackers, coders and developers to “help …

In its third study on unencrypted card data, SecurityMetrics found that 63.86% of businesses store the unencrypted 16-digit sequence on the front of credit cards, also known …

NIST’s primary external advisory board released a report calling for the agency to increase its staff of cryptography experts and implement more explicit processes for …

As the world becomes more dependent, and some might say blindly so, on digital certificates it’s only natural that attackers will seek to circumvent this trust. Whether …

Passcape Software has discovered a DPAPI vulnerability that could potentially lead to unauthorized decryption of personal data and passwords of interactive domain users. The …

Microsoft is making good on the promises they made last December, when they announced that they will – among other things – strengthen the encryption of customer …

IEEE announced the launch of IEEE Anti-Malware Support Service (AMSS). A new service from IEEE Standards Association’s (IEEE-SA) Industry Connections Security Group …

In this interview, Kent Lawson, CEO of Private WiFi, talks about the key threats exposed by wireless access, offers protection advice and illustrates the trends that will …

Software developer Vijay Pandurangan has demonstrated that sometimes data anonymizing efforts made by governments and businesses are worryingly inadequate, as he managed to …

Google has announced another OpenSSL fork. Dubbed BoringSSL, it will, in time, replace the OpenSSL library in various Google’s projects. “We have used a number of …

A team of Cisco software engineers has created a new encryption scheme, and has released it to the public along with the caveat that this new block cypher is not ready for …