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OpenSSL: Urgent Downgrade Needed Due To Severe Cert Issue

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Organizations that installed the June 11 OpenSSL update need to pull it back immediately after a serious certificate validation error was discovered and patched today in a new update.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 10, 2015

Exploring Encryption Risks: Government-Mandated Backdoor Access Concerns

Monday a group of cryptographers and security experts released a major paper outlining the risks of government-mandated back-doors in encryption products: Keys Under Doormats: Mandating insecurity by requiring government access to all data and communications, by Hal Abelson, Ross Anderson, Steve Bellovin, Josh Behaloh, Matt Blaze, Whitfield Diffie, John Gilmore, Matthew Green, Susan Landau, Peter Neumann, Ron Rivest, Jeff Schiller, Bruce Schneier, Michael Specter, and Danny Weitzner.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 09, 2015

UK Government Moves To Ensure Police Can Access Communications

"Britain is not a state that is trying to search through everybody's emails and invade their privacy," according to Prime Minister David Cameron. "We just want to ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate."

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 08, 2015

OpenSSL: High Severity Update Notification for Server Admins

Server admins and developers beware: The OpenSSL Project plans to release security updates Thursday for its widely used cryptographic library that will fix a high severity vulnerability.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 07, 2015

MIT Media Lab Unveils Enigma: Bitcoin-Driven Data Security System

The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 30, 2015

Developers Face Encryption Challenges Leading to Application Flaws

Despite a big push over the past few years to use encryption to combat security breaches, lack of expertise among developers and overly complex libraries have led to widespread implementation failures in business applications.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 29, 2015

Understanding Encryption's Vital Role in Data Protection and Privacy

Encryption protects our data. It protects our data when it's sitting on our computers and in data centers, and it protects it when it's being transmitted around the Internet. It protects our conversations, whether video, voice, or text. It protects our privacy. It protects our anonymity. And sometimes, it protects our lives.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 26, 2015

New Radio Bug Threatens Security of Laptop Crypto Keys Vulnerability

The list of paranoia-inducing threats to your computer

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 23, 2015

Investigating Side-Channel Attacks: Risks to Data Encryption

Israel-based researchers said they

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 22, 2015

Understanding Digital Certificates for SSL/TLS Security

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2015

OpenSSL: Security Advisory for TLS Downgrade Attack Mitigation

The latest security update for OpenSSL cryptographic library includes a fix for a vulnerability that permits a threat actor to weaken the encryption mechanism that secures communication between two parties.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 15, 2015

OpenSSL: Critical LogJam Patch and Seven TLS Security Updates

Users are being urged to upgrade OpenSSL to prevent eavesdroppers listening to otherwise encrypted connections undermined through the LogJam vulnerability thought to be the NSA's crypto-cracking tool of choice.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 12, 2015

Email Encryption Solutions For Enhanced Digital Communication

Encrypted email has long been a complicated problem to solve, but a combination of Internet titans and innovative startups are working to make it practical for real people.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2015

Understanding Format-Preserving Encryption For Cloud Security Enhancements

Conventional encryption is a surefire solution for protecting sensitive data -- except when it breaks cloud applications. "Format-preserving" encryption could change all that.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 22, 2015

Understanding the Risks of Amateur Encryption in Smart Grid Protocols

Anyone can design a cipher that he himself cannot break. This is why you should uniformly distrust amateur cryptography, and why you should only use published algorithms that have withstood broad cryptanalysis. All cryptographers know this, but non-cryptographers do not. And this is why we repeatedly see bad amateur cryptography in fielded systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 12, 2015

Assessing Weak Crypto Threats in Open Smart Grid Protocol

In the three years since its inception, the Open Smart Grid Protocol has found its way into more than four million smart meters and similar devices worldwide.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2015

CyberLock Advisory: Critical Key Cloning Threats for Hospitals

Critical vulnerabilities in a market-leading line of digital locks securing hospitals, airports, and water treatment facilities makes it possible for rogue employees or outside attackers to clone digital keys, researchers reported late last week.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 06, 2015

Enhancing Business Web Security Through SSL Certificates Subscription

SSL and its successor, TLS (Transport Layer Security), which encrypt data exchanged between two machines, are at the heart of web security. Signified by "https" in the browser URL, they underpin almost all Web transactions that requires privacy