Security News

Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Exchanges: A Haven for Money Laundering
2018-07-17 21:04

Buyers and sellers can exchange cash in person, transfer bank funds online or can exchange funds for prepaid cards, gift cards or other cryptocurrencies.

Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on ‘Going Dark’ and the Crypto Arms Race
2018-07-16 17:38

Noted cryptographer waxes on the threats posed by physical cyber systems, 'going dark' and a crypto arms race.

CipherTrace Unveils Crypto-Currency Anti-Money Laundering Solution
2018-07-05 15:48

Cryptocurrency theft and its use to launder other illegal activity is booming. This has prompted the evolution of a related industry that sits on the borderline of legality (barely legal in some...

Things that make you go hmmm: Do crypto key servers violate GDPR?
2018-07-05 08:13

One does not simply 'remove' data from key servers Cryptographic key servers are in "direct violation" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a software developer has claimed.…

Huawei enterprise comms kit has a TLS crypto bug
2018-07-04 06:01

You don't want insecure kit from a vendor the Pentagon hates, do you? Huawei has rolled patches to various enterprise and broadcast products to fix a cryptography bug.…

New macOS Malware Targets Crypto-Currency Users
2018-07-03 12:08

A new piece of macOS malware has been observed being distributed via crypto-currency related Slack or Discord chat groups, security researchers warn. read more

In non-startling news, EFF says STARTTLS email crypto is mostly done wrong
2018-06-26 03:57

And so it's trying to kick off an effort to fix that up, because security and privacy matter Having successfully pushed for universal HTTPS Web encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's...

TLBleed: a new way to leak crypto keys on hyperthreaded processors
2018-06-25 22:18

A new attack prompted OpenBSD's developers to disable hyperthreading by default.

Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel says we shouldn't worry about
2018-06-22 22:44

How to extract 256-bit signing keys with 99.8% success Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by...

Buzzword Bingo: Quantum, AI, Blockchain, Crypto
2018-06-18 18:03

Thales e-Security's Jon Geater Separates Hype From UtilityQuantum computing, blockchain, crypto, internet of things: There's a lot of hype around these technology areas, says Jon Geater, CTO of...