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The Pirate Bay releases censorship-thwarting browser
The operators of The Pirate Bay, one of the most (in)famous piracy sites on the Internet, have decided to celebrate the site’s 10th anniversary by releasing a web …
Secure mail providers close up shop to prevent govt spying
Texas-based secure webmail service Lavabit has unexpectedly closed up shop on Thursday, and the explanation given by owner and operator Ladar Levison is as follows: I have …
Silent Text for Android now on Google Play
Silent Text for Android is now available for download in the Google Play store. It allows you to have secure and encrypted peer-to-peer text conversations on your mobile …
Advice on Tor use in wake of Freedom Hosting compromise
In the wake of the discovery that someone has compromised Tor hidden services hosted by Freedom Hosting and injected malicious JavaScript aimed at de-anonymizing specific …
Self-encrypted 2.5″ SATA SSD from Microsemi
Microsemi announced a secure, half-terabyte SSD for mobile video surveillance operations, SANs and other high capacity storage applications requiring superior real-time data …
All Facebook users get secure browsing by default
After having introduced secure browsing as an option in 2011, and having begun rolling out always-on HTTPS by default for users in North America late last year, Facebook is …
Free tool identifies risks in secure shell environments
SSH Communications Security, known the world over as the inventor of the ubiquitous Secure Shell and SFTP protocols, today announced the general availability of SSH Risk …
Feds to web firms: Hand over encryption keys and user passwords
The US government and its intelligence and law-enforcement agencies have apparently been trying to get Internet firms to hand over both their users’ account passwords …
TOR-based botnets on the rise
Keeping their botnet’s C&C centers online is crucial for bot herders, so that they can keep taking advantage of the computers they zombified. But given that cyber …
Bit9 Introduces enterprise Mac security
Business users are driving demand for Macs across the enterprise. Until now, the few enterprise security products available for the Mac were dependent on malware signatures …
SIM encryption flaw opens 500M users to attack
A flaw in the encryption technology used by some SIM cards can allow attackers to make the target phone download malicious apps and even effectively clone a user’s card …
Apricorn unveils FIPS 140-2 encrypted USB 3.0 drive
Apricorn debuted its Aegis Padlock Fortress, a secure drive designed specifically for the stringent requirements of the Government, Military and Healthcare. The first USB 3.0 …
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