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I recently watched The Day of the Jackal, a 1973 thriller about a plot to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle. What started as a lark to see what Paris looked like in the early 70s...

WikiLeaks has published documents detailing BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon, tools allegedly used by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to steal SSH credentials from Windows and Linux systems. read more

Certificate Transparency and OCSP Must-Staple can't get here fast enough.

But Australia Doesn't Want Backdoors. So What Does It Want?Worried about the use of encryption by terrorists, Australia plans to lobby its key signal intelligence partners at a meeting in Canada...

British multinational BAE Systems has sold sophisticated surveillance technology to many repressive governments in the Middle East and Africa, an investigation by BBC Arabic and Danish newspaper...

Fake news is not a new concept, but the Internet – and social media and networks in particular – have made it infinitely easier for it to spread and reach its target audience. The Internet has...

Serial ports don’t have firewalls.

Serial ports don’t have firewalls.

“Users’ goal to communicate with others overrides everything else, including security,” a group of researchers has concluded after interviewing sixty individuals about their experience with...

Compromising legitimate websites and the web servers that store and deliver them is a time-honoured tactic of opportunistic hackers, and a failure to keep them out can result in the servers...