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A Comprehensive Guide to Key Management in End-To-End Encryption

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Plenty of companies brag that their communications app is encrypted. But that marketing claim demands a followup question: Who has the key? In many cases, the company itself holds the cryptographic key data that lets it decrypt your messages

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 25, 2014

Unraveling Jim Sanborn's Kryptos Sculpture and CIA Codes

In 1989, the year the Berlin Wall began to fall, American artist Jim Sanborn was busy working on his Kryptos sculpture, a cryptographic puzzle wrapped in a riddle that he created for the CIA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 24, 2014

Examining Design Flaws In Cryptographic Protocols: ENISA Insights

The cryptographic protocols used to secure data moving across the web are putting users at risk due to design flaws that date back many years. Given the current push to encrypt everything in response to revelations of government surveillance, it's important that the protocols being used to do the job are actually secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 24, 2014

IAB Advocates Universal Data Encryption Despite Security Sector Pushback

The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) has issued a sweeping directive

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 18, 2014

Robert Hannigan's Call for Crypto Backdoors in Tech Collaboration

Writing that "privacy has never been an absolute right," Robert Hannigan, the head of British spy agency GCHG, urged the US tech sector to assist the fight against terrorism and other crimes by opening up their proprietary networks to government authorities.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 05, 2014

Understanding Homomorphic Encryption For Secure Data Processing

The problem with encrypting data is that sooner or later, you have to decrypt it. Keep your cloud files cryptographically scrambled using a secret key that only you possess, and it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 03, 2014

CryptoWall Attack: US Company Hit Hard by Ransomware Incident

"Here is a tale of ransomware that will make your blood run cold," announced Stu Sjouwerman of security training firm KnowBe4 in a company newsletter this week and he wasn't exaggerating.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2014

iPhone Security Update: Enhanced Data Protection Against Threats

Last week, Apple announced that it is closing a serious security vulnerability in the iPhone. It used to be that the phone's encryption only protected a small amount of the data, and Apple had the ability to bypass security on the rest of it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 22, 2014

FBI Director Discusses Encryption Challenges Impacting Law Enforcement

FBI Director James Comey said Thursday that the recent movement toward default encryption of smartphones and other devices could

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 20, 2014

Fedora: CVE-2014-3466 Critical: SSLv3 POODLE Threat Explained

Another security vulnerability is hitting the tech (and mainstream!) press, and we want to make Fedora users get straight, simple information. This one is CVE-2014-3466, and the cute nickname of the day is

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Exploring Encryption Tools Behind Citizenfour With Laura Poitras

As a journalist, Laura Poitras was the quiet mastermind behind the publication of Edward Snowden

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Critical Advisory: POODLE Attack in SSLv3 Security Issue

On Tuesday, Google's Bodo M

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Google Security Team Exposes Vulnerability in SSL 3.0 Protocol

Google's Security Team revealed on Tuesday that the long obsolete, but still all too used, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 cryptographic protocol has a major security flaw. According to the team's Bodo M

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Google: Default Data Encryption in Next Android Release

Google is turning on data encryption by default in the next version of Android, a step that mirrors broad moves in the technology industry to ensure better data security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 19, 2014

TorrentLocker Ransomware Security Advisory: Enhanced Encryption Measures

The developers of a type of malicious software that encrypts a computer's files and demands a ransom have fixed an error security experts said allowed files to be recovered without paying.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 18, 2014

Google's CA Updates Schedule: A Key to Elevating Web Security Standards

Miffed certificate authorities are calling on Google to give websites more time to upgrade the security used in browser-to-server communications before displaying warnings in Chrome.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 11, 2014

OpenSSL Guidance: Principles for Ethical Usage of Security Advisories

Security advisories for OpenSSL should not be used for competitive advantage, according to the development project behind the widely used cryptography component.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 09, 2014

CERT/CC Report Lists Android Apps Lacking SSL Validation Risks

A growing compilation of close to 350 Android applications that fail to perform SSL certificate validation over HTTPS has been put together by the CERT Coordination Center at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 04, 2014

Google's SHA-1 Support Withdrawal: Effects on Certificate Authorities

Google's recent announcement that they will begin to deprecate support for SHA-1 TLS/SSL digital certificates in Chrome is meeting resistance from certificate authorities (CAs). Google made their announcement on August 20 on their Security-dev mailing list, although they had been warning of this decision for months.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 03, 2014

CryptoWall Ransomware Insights: $1.1M Revenue And Payment Risks

CryptoWall is a million-dollar business. The file-encrypting ransomware has netted the criminal gang responsible for its development and dispersal, more than $1.1 million in the six months it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 02, 2014

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