Security News

Carnegie Mellon Says It Was Subpoenaed-And Not Paid-For Research On Breaking Tor (Threatpost)
2015-11-18 19:55

Carnegie Mellon University implied in a statement that it received a subpoena requesting its research on breaking Tor hidden services, and also implied it was not paid $1 million for the work as...

Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI? (Schneier on Security)
2015-11-16 12:19

There's pretty strong evidence that the team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who canceled their scheduled 2015 Black Hat talk deanonymized Tor users for the FBI. Details are in this...

Week in review: Linux ransomware, university researchers unmask Tor users, and how one man changed the way we understand SSL (Help Net Security)
2015-11-16 07:35

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news and articles: Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How one man changed the way we understand SSL "When I originally came with the idea of SSL...