Security News

UK High Court declares emergency surveillance bill unlawful (Help Net Security)
2015-07-20 11:27

On Friday, the UK High Court has declared Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act (DRIPA) unlawful. DRIPA is an emergency legislation signed into law in July 2014, and its main goal was to allo...

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...