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The recent incidents with the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability, along with the strange turn of events involving TrueCrypt shine a light on a big issue for security …

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 …

Even though a number of people have expressed interest in continuing the development of TrueCrypt, the future of these projects is questionable as one of the TrueCrypt …

One peek at the leaked pages of NSA’s ANT catalog made wireless security researcher Michael Ossmann’s mind start spinning. “Could we – could I – …

Another critical bug in an open source SSL/TLS (and DTLS) cryptographic library has been discovered and patched last week. The affected library is GnuTLS, and is used in a …

The unexpected notice saying TrueCrypt isn’t safe, which has apparently been posted last week by the developers of the software, took the security community by surprise …

The danger from Heartbleed has passed for most Internet users, but operators of Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are not that lucky. The US ICS CERT has issued on Tuesday an …

In this podcast, recorded at Infosecurity Europe 2014, Ivan Ristic, Director of Engineering at Qualys, talks about the Heartbleed bug and its impact on the security industry. …

Red Hat announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Inktank, a provider of scale-out, open source storage systems. Inktank’s flagship technology, …

The nonprofit Linux Foundation has announced the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project aimed to fund open source projects critical for the global …

For all the talk about how something should be done to fix OpenSSL so that a Heartbleed situation is never again repeated, there has been little to no concrete action so far. …

Thanks to the OpenSSL Heartbleed bug, the Tor anonymity network is set to temporarily lose around “12 per cent of the exit capacity and 12 per cent of the guard …