Security News

California Kills Phone Decryption Bill, But Bigger Battles Loom (Threatpost)
2016-04-15 11:00

While civil liberties advocates celebrate the defeat of California bill AB 1681, they caution that the fight to protect encryption from government regulation is not over.

Decryption Tool Stifles Jigsaw Ransomware (Threatpost)
2016-04-13 21:25

Jigsaw ransomware makes big data-destructing threats to victims, but its bark may be worse than its bite now that security experts have found a way for victims to decrypt systems for free.

OpenSSL bug that could allow traffic decryption has been fixed (Help Net Security)
2016-01-29 11:26

The OpenSSL Project has pushed out new versions of the widely used OpenSSL cryptographic library, which incorporate patches for two distinct security bugs, and an update of the protection against the ...