Security News

Amazon's decision to remove device encryption from its tablets has sparked a backlash with customers and raised concerns wtih privacy activists.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap RSA 2016, the pervasiveness of the FBI vs. Apple debate, OpenSSL two years after Heartbleed, and why hacking back is always a bad idea.

Cisco released a critical patch for its Nexus 3000 and 3500 switches that removes a default administrative account with static credentials.

An amicus brief filed on behalf of well known past and present Apple hackers asks the government to vacate its order asking Apple to unlock a terrorist's phone.

Researchers claim major banks are implementing poor password policies and leaving customers vulnerable to brute force "key-search" attack.

At the RSA Conference, nearly two years after Heartbleed, members of OpenSSL's Development Team described some benefits the nasty bug afforded them.

A panel at RSA Conference on appropriate responses to state-sponsored espionage of intellectual property for economic gain served as a reminder of the dangers of hacking back.

The massive DROWN vulnerability resurrects fears over lingering export-grade cryptography

NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers spoke at RSA Conference about public-private cooperation and sharing, but failed to touch on the agency's silence around the Apple-FBI debate.

The annual Cryptographers' Panel at RSA Conference took on the FBI-Apple debate head-on, and could not arrive at a unified conclusion.