Security News

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...

Let's Encrypt Is Making Web Encryption Easier (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-14 12:46

That's the conclusion of a research paper: Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk, thus quickly...

Governments are behind on data encryption in the public cloud (Help Net Security)
2016-12-07 12:30

A HyTrust survey of 59 government and military organizations found that nearly 20 percent of those respondents do not implement data security or encryption solutions in the public cloud....

Telecrypt Decryptor foils ransomware’s simple encryption method (Help Net Security)
2016-11-23 15:24

The recently spotted Telecrypt ransomware can be thwarted: malware analyst Nathan Scott has created a tool that decrypts the encrypted files. Telecrypt Decryptor works only if the affected user...

Encryption ransomware hits record levels (Help Net Security)
2016-11-18 13:15

The amount of phishing emails containing a form of ransomware grew to 97.25 percent during the third quarter of 2016 up from 92 percent in Q1. PhishMe’s Q3 2016 Malware Review identified three...

Lobbyists Press Trump to Support Strong Encryption, Surveillance Reform (Threatpost)
2016-11-15 17:11

A lobbying organization sent a letter to President-Elect Donald Trump, asking him to support the expansion of strong encryption and reform government surveillance activities.