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Exploitable Vulnerabilities Could Reveal Plaintext of Encrypted EmailsEuropean computer security researchers say they have discovered vulnerabilities that relate to two techniques used to encrypt...
An important warning for people using widely used email encryption tools—PGP and S/MIME—for sensitive communication. A team of European security researchers has released a warning about a set of...
Users advised to stop using and/or uninstall plugins ASAP to stop Pretty Grievous P0wnage A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences has warned that popular...
Adobe suffered at a minimum a PR black eye on Friday when one of its private PGP keys was inadvertently published to its Product Incident Security Response Team (PSIRT) blog.
Adobe’s product security incident response team (PSIRT) accidentally published a private PGP key on its blog. The compromised key was quickly revoked and a new key was generated after the incident...
The Dutch police arrested four suspects on Tuesday on suspicion of money laundering and involvement in selling custom encrypted BlackBerry and Android smartphones to criminals. The Dutch National...
A few days ago I blogged an excellent essay by Filippo Valsorda on why he's giving up on PGP. Neal Walkfield wrote a good rebuttal. I am on Valsorda's side. I don't like PGP, and I use it as...
Filippo Valsorda wrote an exellent essay on why he's giving up on PGP. I have long believed PGP to be more trouble than it is worth. It's hard to use correctly, and easy to get wrong. More...
