Security News

Newly disclosed Logjam bug might be how the NSA broke VPNs (Help Net Security)
2015-05-20 14:21

Another vulnerability courtesy of 1990s-era US export restrictions on cryptography has been discovered, and researchers believe it might be how the NSA managed to regularly break their targets' encryp...

House Vote Slams NSA Records Collection; Senate Next as 215 Deadline Looms (Threatpost)
2015-05-14 18:27

The U.S. House voted 388-88 to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone call metadata business records.

US House of Representatives votes to stop NSA's bulk data collection (Help Net Security)
2015-05-14 11:36

The highly debated USA FREEDOM Act, a bill whose purpose is "to rein in the dragnet collection of data by the NSA and other government agencies, increase transparency of the Foreign Intelligence Surve...