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iMessage Encryption Limits Federal Surveillance Capabilities

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Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 04, 2013

Comprehensive Guide for Encrypting Linux Partitions with Cryptoloop

This article will describe how to encrypt entire partition with a Cryptoloop. Cryptoloop is a disk encryption module for Linux. It was first introduced in the 2.5.x kernel series.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2013

Utilizing EncFS for Secure User Data Encryption on Linux Systems

Any decent Linux distribution comes with an installation option to automatically encrypt user's home directory. In case you do not wish to encrypt the entire home directory or perhaps you wish to encrypt some random directories on your Linux system you can use EncFS the FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 04, 2013

Ransomware Encryption: Complications in Malware Removal Efforts

A new version of the well-known police ransomware takes the unusual step of encrypting files on the infected PC, so the malware cannot be easily removed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 31, 2013

Blacklisted Certificates: Google, Mozilla, Microsoft Act Against Turktrust

Turktrust, the Turkish CA (certificate authority) responsible for issuing an intermediate CA certificate that was later used to generate an unauthorized certificate for google.com, claims that the bad Google certificate was not used for dishonest purposes.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 07, 2013

Access Encrypted Volumes With Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor

The newly announced ElcomSoft Forensic Disk Decryptor can decrypt BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt. And it's only $300. How does it work?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 31, 2012

China Unicom VPN Blockages: Access and Privacy Consequences

The "Great Firewall of China" is now able to detect and block encryption: A number of companies providing "virtual private network" (VPN) services to users in China say the new system is able to "learn, discover and block" the encrypted communications methods used by a number of different VPN systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 20, 2012

Exploring Encryption Methods For Safe Global Cloud Computing

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2012

Google: Weak Cryptographic Key Risk Allows Email Spoofing

So he wondered if the e-mail might have been spoofed

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2012

TrueCrypt Disk Encryption: Analyzing Security Flaws and Risks

The open source TrueCrypt disk encryption tool is considered the to be the software of choice for systematically encrypting data. It is able to encrypt individual drives, such as USB Flash drives, and even entire hard drives. A small utility called TCHead is, however, able to tackle data encrypted using TrueCrypt.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 24, 2012

Impact Of 3D Printing On High-Security Systems And Cyber Threats

In the age of freely available modeling software, laser cutters and 3D printers, shapes that must stay secret for security

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 15, 2012

Delving Into The Covert Operations Of A CIA-Operated Burglar

This is a fascinating story of a CIA burglar, who worked for the CIA until he tried to work against the CIA. The fact that he stole code books and keys from foreign embassies makes it extra interesting, and the complete disregard for the Constitution at the end makes it extra scary.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 09, 2012

NIST Chooses Keccak As SHA-3 Successor After Competitive Evaluation

A US government agency has selected cryptographic hash function Keccak as the new official SHA-3 algorithm.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 03, 2012

Adobe: Security Breach Critical: Digital Certificate Misuse

Hackers have broken into an internal server at Adobe to compromise a digital certificate that allowed them to create at least two files that appear to be legitimately signed by the software maker, but actually contain malware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 02, 2012

BitFloor Bitcoin Recovery and Security Updates After Theft

A small New York-based company that specializes in exchanging Bitcoins is back online after hackers stole about US$250,000 worth of the virtual currency earlier this month.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 25, 2012

NIST Announcement: SHA-3 Finalist Featuring Skein Candidate

NIST is about to announce the new hash algorithm that will become SHA-3. This is the result of a six-year competition, and my own Skein is one of the five remaining finalists (out of an initial 64).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 24, 2012

W3C Introduces Draft Web Cryptography API for Enhanced Browser Security

The W3C web standards consortium has presented a first Public Working Draft for integrating a Web Cryptography API into browsers. The JavaScript API will provide features such as hashing, key generation and verification, as well as encryption and decryption.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2012

Pre-Play Attacks Affecting Chip-and-Pin Payment Systems

You see, an EMV payment card authenticates itself with a MAC of transaction data, for which the freshly generated component is the unpredictable number (UN). If you can predict it, you can record everything you need from momentary access to a chip card to play it back and impersonate the card at a future date and location. You can as good as clone the chip.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 11, 2012

Enhancing VNC Security on Linux with SSH Tunneling Techniques

If you're new to Linux or Unix, you might prefer using a graphical user interface (GUI) over the command-line interface (CLI), and when remotely connecting you can use the remote desktop protocol and GUI-based Virtual Network Computing (VNC).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2012

Discontinuation of Md5crypt: Security Risks for Linux Systems

THE AUTHOR of md5crypt(), which is used to encrypt passwords on some FreeBSD and Linux-based operating systems, has said it is no longer secure despite being recommended as a password hashing function.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 08, 2012

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