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UK spy chief, parroting his US counterparts, calls for crypto backdoors

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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

Hacker Lexicon: What Is Homomorphic Encryption?

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

Disaster as CryptoWall encrypts US firm's entire server installation

"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 Encryption and the Return of the Crypto Wars

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

Mobile Device Encryption Could Lead to a

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

What you need to know about the SSLv3

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

Laura Poitras on the Crypto Tools That Made Her Snowden Film Possible

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

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Dreaded SSLv3 bug no monster, only a POODLE

On Tuesday, Google's Bodo M

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2014

Google reveals major flaw in outdated, but widely-used SSL protocol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 to turn on encryption by default in next Android version

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

Encryption goof fixed in TorrentLocker file-locking malware

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

How Google's tiff with certificate authorities can impact you

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 warns vendors against using vulnerability info for marketing

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 Enumerates Android App SSL Validation Failures

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 accelerates end of SHA-1 support; certificate authorities nervous

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

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

FireEye, Fox-IT launch free service to combat Cryptolocker ransomware

FireEye and Fox-IT have launched a free tool to assist victims of the CryptoLocker ransomware. Announced on Wednesday, the new service, dubbed DecryptCryptoLocker, is available for free to assist those impacted by the CryptoLocker ransomware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 06, 2014

Cryptolocker neutralized, says Justice Department

A status report filed by the Justice Department on Friday indicates that the Cryptolocker threat has been neutralized. Cryptolocker, ransomware that extorted more than $27 million from its victims in nine months of existence, can no longer communicate with the infrastructure used to control the malware, according to a Friday release.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 15, 2014

Too many cooks may worsen the OpenSSL mess

Nobody questions that OpenSSL is a vital part of the Internet's infrastructure. So many fundamentals are built on top of it and in so many places. Too much is at stake for it to be vulnerable to yet another Heartbleed, the dangers of which may linger for some time in embedded and client devices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 14, 2014

OpenSSL Project publishes roadmap to counter criticism

The OpenSSL Project is planning a number of changes to ensure its security component, used across millions of computers across the Internet, is in tip-top shape.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2014

Cryptography - Page 9

Abyss Locker Ransomware Targets Linux & Windows Users

Linux Foundation Joins Post-Quantum Cryptography Alliance

New Decryption Key Available for Babuk Tortilla Ransomware Victims