encryption

Microsoft Tags US Government As A ‘Persistent Threat’

Microsoft labels the US government as an “advanced persistent threat” following the snooping revelations

11 years ago

Twitter Boosts User Protection With ‘Forward Security’ Encryption Enhancements

Twitter says it wants others to follow in its footsteps, with measures to prevent snooping

11 years ago

Yahoo To Encrypt All Traffic And Products By Early 2014

Following the NSA scandal, CEO Marissa Mayer is taking decisive measures and introducing SSL across the board

11 years ago

Ransomware Scam Hits UK Small Businesses

The National Crime Agency has warned of a scam that is seeing users' files encrypted when they click on a…

11 years ago

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Hits Out At GCHQ Snooping

Inventor of the World Wide Web slams the Internet snooping practices of the NSA and GCHQ

11 years ago

ICO Fines North East Lincolnshire Council £80,000 For Lost USB Stick

ICO dishes fine after a teach lost a memory stick with information about 286 children with special needs

11 years ago

CipherCloud Launches Cloud Encryption Offering

CipherCloud's Linux-based SSE product offers strong encryption for the cloud while allowing data to remain searchable

11 years ago

WhatsApp Users ‘Should Not Trust Broken Encryption’

More encryption problems uncovered on WhatsApp

11 years ago

Want To Avoid NSA-Corrupted Crypto? Get Thee To The Geeks

The NSA may have ruined Internet security, but Silent Circle is leading the way in pushing non-standardised encryption. Tom Brewster…

11 years ago

RSA Warns Customers About NSA Encryption Cracking

RSA is one of the first commercial companies to warn about issues with encryption after revelations about the NSA's meddling…

11 years ago

There Is No Way To Keep Your Data From The NSA

Even encryption won't stop the NSA. Wayne Rash warns of back doors in network adapters, which could siphon off data…

11 years ago

NSA And GCHQ ‘Covertly Plant Vulnerabilities In Internet Encryption’

Intelligence agencies working inside tech companies to insert flaws in modern encryption, according to more of Snowden's leaks

11 years ago

After PRISM, France’s Laurent Chemla Offers Secure Email

Could French activist Laurent Chemla's CALIOP fill the gap left by Lavabit and Silent Circle?

11 years ago

SIM Card Encryption Weaknesses Could Expose Millions

Hundreds of millions of SIMs are using weak encryption to do over the air updates, which is bad news for…

11 years ago

Cloudsweeper Aims To Secure Email Accounts

The Cloudsweeper project offers to encrypt passwords and other sensitive information in a user's inbox, while also estimating how much…

11 years ago

Dell Tightens Corporate Security With Protected Workplace

Dell has beefed up enterprise security with the launch of Protected Workspace for business PCs

11 years ago

Researchers Warn Of Windows EFS Exploit By Malware

To thwart security analysis, malware uses the Encrypting File System feature on Microsoft Windows

11 years ago

Ruckus Touts Wi-Fi Hotspot Protection

Ruckus is promising to tighten up the security of corporate Wi-Fi hotspots with its Secure Hotspot

11 years ago

W3C Advances Controversial HTML5 Copyright Protection Plans

The W3C has published a first public draft of a controversial proposal that would make it easier for encrypted video…

12 years ago

GCHQ Security Gaffe: Spooks Send Passwords In Plain Text

Intelligence agency criticised for rookie error

12 years ago

Evernote Resets All Passwords Following A Security Breach

50 million accounts need new passwords, but Evernote says no content had been compromised

12 years ago

Bitcasa Touts ‘Infinite’ Online Storage

Cloud storage startup Bitcasa has launched and apparently offers "infinite" amounts of secure online storage

12 years ago

Quantum Cryptography Can Mix With Data Traffic, Say Cambridge Boffins

Quantum cryptography no longer needs dark fibre, say Toshiba researchers

12 years ago

Cummings Touts Military Spec Mobile Security With SecureMobile

Cummings Engineering has launched its mobile security platform, SecureMobile, to help tackle BYOD issues

12 years ago

Mac OS X Lion Update Bug Exposes Passwords

A February update to Mac OS X Lion stores passwords in a plain text file readable to any user with…

13 years ago

Who’s Hacking Who In Cyber Wars Is Not The Real Concern

China gets the blame for being the cyber-warmongering nation but everybody's at it and its industry that takes the arrows…

13 years ago

Leaky Radio Signals Pose Smartphone Security Risk

Smartphones and gadgets leak signals from their electronics, potentially revealing encryption keys

13 years ago

IntraLinks Offers Secure Intra-Company Mobile Collaboration Environment

IntraLinks Connect secures and audits access to files stored in its Cloud for remote access by any device, with the…

13 years ago

Windows Phones To Include High-End Email Encryption

Microsoft is partnering with Good Technology for a Windows Phone solution that offers encrypted end-to-end messaging

13 years ago

RSA 2012: Sophos And Egnyte Secure Mobile Documents

Documents are increasingly being exchanged through the Cloud, encryption is one way to prevent their misuse

13 years ago