Security News

EFF: NSA’s Support of Encryption ‘Disingenuous’ (Threatpost)
2016-10-06 17:49

Cindy Cohn, the EFF's Executive Director, called the NSA's support of strong encryption disingenuous during a cybersecurity conference panel Wednesday.

Facebook Messenger end-to-end encryption rolled out for all users (Help Net Security)
2016-10-05 13:15

Facebook Messenger’s Secret Conversations feature, which allows end-to-end encryption of messages exchanged by two users that have enabled the option, has finally been rolled out to all Messenger...

Researchers Break MarsJoke Ransomware Encryption (Threatpost)
2016-10-03 09:00

Victims infected with the MarsJoke ransomware can now decrypt their files; researchers cracked the encryption in the CTB-Locker lookalike last week.

Many tech senior decision-makers don’t understand encryption (Help Net Security)
2016-09-28 12:45

Nearly a quarter of tech senior decision-makers in the UK don’t fully understand encryption, according to PKWARE. This number increases to 40% in the retail sector and half in the healthcare...