encryption

Feds cloned TorMail server with future investigations in mind

January 28, 2014

TorMail users engaged in illegal activities might have felt more than a twinge of anxiety when it was confirmed last summer that the FBI took control of Freedom …

Knox: Mac file encryption and backup

January 27, 2014

Knox is a utility that enables you to create encrypted vaults on OS X. It's made by AgileBits, the company behind the popular password manager 1Password.

Free trial for cloud-based encryption and secure key management on AWS

January 22, 2014

SafeNet announced a thirty-day free trial of its ProtectV virtual encryption solutions and Virtual KeySecure via AWS Marketplace on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Financial …

Most non-IT employees don’t “get” company IT security policies

January 22, 2014

DataMotion released results of its second annual survey on corporate email and file transfer habits. Among the findings is a far-reaching communications disconnect between IT …

New technology searches encrypted data in its encrypted form

January 16, 2014

Fujitsu Laboratories announced the development of a technology that can perform concealed searches of encrypted data in its encrypted form. Searching data while it is …

Blackphone to put privacy and control first

January 16, 2014

Silent Circle and Geeksphone announced Blackphone, a smartphone placing privacy and control directly in the hands of its users. Blackphone, powered by a security-oriented …

Target hackers shopping around for data decryption services?

January 14, 2014

The target breach and the massive amount of user information compromised in its wake is understandably worrying customers. But what are the odds of it being actually used by …

Sefnit Trojan endangers users even after removal

January 10, 2014

Remember when in late August 2013 the Tor anonymity network was hit with a sudden and massive influx of active clients connecting to it? It was later discovered that the spike …

Yahoo Mail now has HTTPS on by default

January 9, 2014

With a short blog post, Yahoo’s SVP of Communication Products Jeff Bonforte has announced that the company has started encrypting all connections between their users and …

NSA employee will remain as co-chair on crypto standards group

January 8, 2014

NSA employee Kevin Igoe will continue to be one of the two co-chairs of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG), which helps the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) review …

Deadly new ransomware soon to be released?

January 7, 2014

As disruptive as Cryptolocker is, there’s a possibility that an even deadlier type of ransomware will soon be targeting unsuspecting users. White-hat security research …

Multi-protocol SoftEther VPN becomes open source