Security News

Let's Encrypt Issued A Billion Free SSL Certificates in the Last 4 Years
2020-02-28 04:26

Let's Encrypt, a free, automated, and open certificate signing authority from the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group, has said it's issued a billion certificates since its launch in 2015. Since late last year, Let's Encrypt has issued at least 1.2 million certificates each day.

Google Advises Android Developers to Encrypt App Data On Device
2020-02-26 04:34

Google today published a blog post recommending mobile app developers to encrypt data that their apps generate on the users' devices, especially when they use unprotected external storage that's prone to hijacking. The open-sourced Jetpack Security library lets Android app developers easily read and write encrypted files by following best security practices, including storing cryptographic keys and protecting files that may contain sensitive data, API keys, OAuth tokens.

How to use 7zip to encrypt files
2020-02-07 19:34

If you need strong command line encryption on Linux, look no further than 7zip.

How to use 7zip to encrypt files
2020-02-06 21:45

Although this tool is typically used for zipping and unzipping files, it also includes the ability to encrypt and decrypt those files. Say you have the files webservers and kubernetes to be encrypted into the file data.7z. The command for this would be:.7z a -p -mx=9 -mhe -t7z data.7z webservers kubernetes.

No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim
2020-01-21 20:04

Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt its iCloud backups two years ago after being pressured by the FBI, it is claimed. Under this plan, Apple would no longer have the key to unlock encrypted data, meaning it would no longer be able provide decrypted backups of its users to the authorities, even under court order.

Google: 80% of Android Apps Encrypt Traffic by Default
2019-12-03 19:22

Google has shared some data on the adoption of Transport Layer Security (TLS) by Android applications and it seems that significant progress has been made over the past two years. read more

AG Barr, Officials to Facebook: Don’t Encrypt Messaging
2019-10-04 11:02

Officials say they are concerned about their ability to fight crime and protect citizens, while privacy advocates remain critical of government interference

You all know why you should encrypt your cloud data – now learn where and how…
2019-09-16 06:30

AWS spills the beans Promo You know it makes sense to go to the cloud, and you know it makes sense to encrypt your data. But just what should you be encrypting - and where? And what’s the most...

Web body mulls halving HTTPS cert lifetimes. That screaming in the distance is HTTPS cert sellers fearing orgs will bail for Let's Encrypt
2019-08-13 01:43

Expensive renewals once a year... or free certificates any time? Tough choice CA/Browser Forum – an industry body of web browser makers, software developers, and security certificate issuers – is...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
2019-06-22 16:33

In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre, and...