encryption
NCP engineering adds elliptic curve cryptography to products
NCP engineering released new versions of its Windows-compatible IPsec VPN client suite and hybrid IPsec / SSL VPN gateway. NCP’s VPN client suite and gateway now come …
Barracuda Web Filter 7.0 targets social media harassment
Barracuda Networks released firmware version 7.0 for its Web Filter. Highlights of the new release include transparent inspection of SSL-encrypted traffic, proactive alerts …
Google delivers patch for Android SecureRandom implementation
An Android security engineer has again confirmed the existence of the vulnerability that made the most popular Bitcoin wallet apps for the platform open to attack, and offered …
Practical Anonymity: Hiding in Plain Sight Online
With the recent surveillance scandals tied to the NSA, you can no longer be deemed paranoid or believe yourself to be overreacting if you want to find a way of keeping your …
Mega plans to offer encrypted email service
With Lavabit’s closure and Silent Circle’s shutdown of its Silent Mail, the question is where to turn next for a secure email service. Prims-break.org has a few …
Fortinet expands secure application delivery product portfolio
Fortinet announced new additions to its secure application delivery product portfolio that are a result of the company’s acquisitions of Coyote Point Systems and XDN. …
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 …
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