Security News

New Russian law to force service providers to decrypt encrypted comms (Help Net Security)
2016-06-29 21:28

An extremely wide-ranging anti-terrorism law has been passed last week by the lower house of the Russian Federal Assembly (i.e. parliament), and it is widely expected to pass the upper house...

Decryption Utilities Unlock Files Encrypted by All TeslaCrypt Versions (Threatpost)
2016-06-10 16:16

Cisco released a decryption utility that unlocks files encrypted by all four versions of TeslaCrypt; Kaspersky Lab has also published a similar decryptor.

The Illusion Of An Encrypted Internet (Threatpost)
2016-06-07 16:56

Rapid7 released its National Exposure Index, which measures the top 30 ports and protocols on IPv4 and quantifies unsecured services running on the Internet.

Defend encrypted data from quantum computer threat (Help Net Security)
2016-04-29 12:30

If an exotic quantum computer is invented that could break the codes we depend on to protect confidential electronic information, what will we do to maintain our security and privacy? That’s the...