Security News

Patrick Wardle on macOS Gatekeeper, Crypto Enhancements (Threatpost)
2016-06-20 13:00

At last week's Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick...

Standards group aims to put crypto controls into browsers to secure Web apps (ZDNet)
2016-06-17 19:12

D-Link Patches Weak Crypto in mydlink Devices (Threatpost)
2016-06-14 14:03

IoT security company Firmalyzer found that mydlink devices from D-Link use weak versions of SSL for remote connections. D-Link has updated its firmware.

Netgear removes crypto keys hard-coded in routers (Help Net Security)
2016-06-14 13:30

Qualys security researcher Mandar Jadhav has discovered two serious vulnerabilities in Netgear D6000 and D3600 modem routers, which can be exploited to gain access to the devices and to intercept...

Netgear Router Update Removes Hardcoded Crypto Keys (Threatpost)
2016-06-11 13:00

Netgear on Friday released firmware updates for two of its router products lines, patching a hardcoded cryptographic key and an authentication bypass flaw that were reported six months ago.

On her microphone's secret service: How spies, anyone can grab crypto keys from the air (The Register)
2016-06-04 07:59

Facebook to kill native chat, bring opt-in crypto to Messenger (The Register)
2016-06-03 09:23

Scrum.org hacked, may have lost crypto keys and some user data (The Register)
2016-06-01 08:21

Feinstein-Burr's bonkers backdoor crypto law is dead in the water (The Register)
2016-05-27 20:10

IETF spikes government metadata collection with DNS request crypto plan (The Register)
2016-05-25 02:59