Security News

Policy Repercussions of the Paris Terrorist Attacks (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-24 12:32

In 2013, in the early days of the Snowden leaks, Harvard Law School professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith reflected on the increase in NSA surveillance post 9/11. He...

Paris Terrorists Use Double ROT-13 Encryption (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-18 21:35

That is, no encryption at all. The Intercept has the story: "Yet news emerging from Paris -- as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January -- suggests that the ISIS terror networks...

A Jihadi Help Desk assists ISIS terrorists and sympathizers with encryption? (Help Net Security)
2015-11-18 14:05

The recent Paris attacks by ISIS have become the perfect pretext for governments to resume their attack on encryption. Even though the New York Times pulled an article blaming encryption for the at...