Security News

Global geopolitical changes driving encryption adoption (Help Net Security)
2017-02-17 12:02

Recent global geopolitical changes have made more people and organizations than ever worry about the privacy of their data, and consider increasing their use of encryption to ensure their data is...

Ugly Password Gaffe Plagues Cryptkeeper Encryption App (Threatpost)
2017-01-31 18:02

Debian developers are recommending that the Cryptkeeper Linux encryption app be pulled from the distribution after a universal password was found.

AG Nominee Backs Law Enforcement’s Ability to ‘Overcome’ Encryption (Threatpost)
2017-01-24 17:07

President Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions says law enforcement should be able to “overcome” encryption in criminal investigations.

Key Transparency: A secure directory of public encryption keys (Help Net Security)
2017-01-17 13:15

Google has released Key Transparency, an open source public directory meant to simplify the discovery of intended recipients’ public encryption key. The project is still in the prototype phase,...

Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea (Threatpost)
2016-12-22 11:00

Members of the bipartisan encryption working group released a year-end report concluding that encryption backdoor laws would do more harm than good.

Encryption Working Group Annual Report from the US House of Representatives (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-21 15:25

The Encryption Working Group of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released its annual report. Observation #1: Any measure that weakens encryption works...

DDoS attacks via WordPress now come with encryption (Help Net Security)
2016-12-14 13:51

Kaspersky Lab experts have noted an emerging trend – a growth in the number of attacks using encryption. Such attacks are highly effective due to the difficulty in identifying them amongst the...