Security News

Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker Chooses Encryption Over Backdoors
2019-10-28 11:22

In an extraordinary essay, the former FBI general counsel Jim Baker makes the case for strong encryption over government-mandated backdoors: In the face of congressional inaction, and in light of...

Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption
2019-10-25 11:14

The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in...

Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard
2019-10-22 10:56

NIST has completed a study -- it was published last year, but I just saw it recently -- calculating the costs and benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard. From the conclusion: The result of...

Facebook urged by governments to halt end-to-end encryption plans
2019-10-07 11:31

The US, UK and Australian governments last week officially urged Facebook to halt its plans for end-to-end encryption.

Here we go again: US govt tells Facebook to kill end-to-end encryption for the sake of the children
2019-10-04 19:15

Uncle Sam calls on tech giants to open up platforms for government snooping The US government is renewing its efforts to talk tech firms out of using end-to-end encryption methods that would keep...

Kaspersky warns of encryption-busting Reductor malware
2019-10-03 23:36

Infection manipulates browsers to snoop on TLS comms Kaspersky says it has uncovered a new malware infection that is able to decode encrypted TLS traffic without the need to intercept or manipulate it.…

PDF encryption standard weaknesses uncovered
2019-10-03 12:12

Researchers have discovered weaknesses in PDF encryption which could be exploited to reveal the plaintext contents of a file to an attacker.

Hack Breaks PDF Encryption, Opens Content to Attackers
2019-10-02 10:21

PDFex can bypass encryption and password protection in most PDF readers and online validation services

Microsoft changes encryption, another D-Link bug, phishing dangers, and more
2019-09-30 06:48

Plus, Baltimore's disastrous ransomware infection and worse IT practices Roundup Let's look at some of the latest security news you may have missed this week.…

How long before quantum computers break encryption?
2019-09-30 06:00

The verdict is in: quantum computing poses an existential threat to asymmetric cryptography algorithms like RSA and ECC that underpin practically all current Internet security. This comes straight...