Security News

Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season. "Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate," R Street Policy Study #133, by Charles Duan, Arthur Rizer, Zach Graves and...

Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country's latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its...

Apple is bowing to pressure from the Chinese government and storing encryption keys in China. While I would prefer it if it would take a stand against China, I really can't blame it for putting...

Researchers have discovered a dozen vulnerabilities in Trend Micro’s Email Encryption Gateway, including several issues rated critical and high severity. A majority of the flaws have been patched...

GitHub this week permanently disabled a series of weak cryptographic standards across its software development platform in an attempt to better protect users. read more

Trend Micro has plugged a bucketload of vulnerabilities in its Email Encryption Gateway, some of which can be combined to execute root commands from the perspective of a remote unauthenticated...

The move was announced on Thursday by Open Whisper Systems, the software organization behind the open source Signal Protocol, which has been implemented by Microsoft to offer the feature. Private...

Microsoft this week announced that end-to-end encrypted communications are now available for preview to Skype insiders. Called Private Conversations, the newly introduced feature secures both text...

An analysis of FBI Director Christopher Wray's comments about how encryption poses complications for law enforcement officials leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also featured:...

Good news for Skype users who are concerned about their privacy. Microsoft is collaborating with popular encrypted communication company Signal to bring end-to-end encryption support to Skype...