Security News

Security experts explain to US, UK governments why mandated encryption backdoors are a bad idea (Help Net Security)
2015-07-08 12:06

Today, FBI director James Comey and Sally Quillian Yates, the deputy attorney general at the Justice Department, are scheduled to address the US Senate Judiciary Committee about law enforcement's need...

UK Student’s Research a Wassenaar Casualty (Threatpost)
2015-07-06 18:06

Grant Wilcox, an ethical hacking degree candidate at the University of Northumbria in the U.K., said the Wassenaar Arrangement rules were one reason he decided not to publish exploits he developed...

US, UK spies reverse-engineered security software in search for flaws (Help Net Security)
2015-06-23 15:30

The UK GCHQ has been actively trying to reverse-engineer popular security software in order find vulnerabilities that can be used to neutralize the protection the software offers to the agency's poten...

Does the UK need to do more to address the threat of nuclear terrorism? (Help Net Security)
2015-06-15 08:00

The emotive nature of linking nuclear and terrorism in the same sentence leads to understandably visceral responses as we all seek to protect ourselves and our loved ones from disaster. However, befor...