Security News

New KRACK Attack Against Wi-Fi Encryption
2017-10-16 13:39

Mathy Vanhoef has just published a devastating attack against WPA2, the 14-year-old encryption protocol used by pretty much all wi-fi systems. Its an interesting attack, where the attacker forces...

US Top Law Enforcement Calls Strong Encryption a ‘Serious Problem’
2017-10-06 07:53

U.S. Deputy Attorney General and other top cyber policy makers warn the use of strong encryption hobbles law enforcement’s ability to protect the public and solve crimes and is a serious problem.

ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms
2017-09-21 10:50

The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance: A number of them voiced...

Why end-to-end encryption is about more than just privacy
2017-09-13 13:30

The question of whether regular people need end-to-end encryption will surely be debated for quite some time. But for Alan Duric, CEO and co-founder of Wire, the question can only have a positive...

A step toward practical quantum encryption over free-space networks (Help Net Security)
2017-08-25 13:00

Researchers have sent a quantum-secured message containing more than one bit of information per photon through the air above a city. The demonstration showed that it could one day be practical to...

How security pros look at encryption backdoors (Help Net Security)
2017-08-18 12:30

The majority of IT security professionals believe encryption backdoors are ineffective and potentially dangerous, with 91 percent saying cybercriminals could take advantage of government-mandated...

Alternatives to Government-Mandated Encryption Backdoors (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-25 11:52

Policy essay: "Encryption Substitutes," by Andrew Keane Woods: In this short essay, I make a few simple assumptions that bear mentioning at the outset. First, I assume that governments have good...

Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-17 11:29

News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. Law...

Satellite Phone Encryption Calls Can be Cracked in Fractions of a Second (The Hackers News)
2017-07-10 05:05

Security researchers have discovered a new method to decrypt satellite phone communications encrypted with the GMR-2 cipher in "real time" -- that too in mere fractions of a second in some cases....

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library (The Hackers News)
2017-07-04 00:32

Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to...