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No, Edward Snowden is not stupid – he says he no longer has a copy of the NSA...
Edward Snowden has given a rare interview to The New York Times, saying he never retained a copy of his leaked NSA material after passing it on to journalists in Hong Kong. This is crucial, as some...
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Snowden’s legacy: The open web could soon be encrypted by default
Well here’s one way to stymie the NSA: in a couple of years, much if not most of the open web will be encrypted by default. Following recent discussions between the big browser makers,...
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Not Smart: LG TVs reportedly spy on attached hard drives and send data back...
LG’s Smart TVs may be reporting a tad too much information back to the company’s servers, according to a detailed and convincing post by British blogger “DoctorBeet”. Apparently in the name of targeted...
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iPhones out in German parliament as parties opt for encrypted communications
Politicians from Germany’s two biggest parties are currently negotiating what their grand coalition will look like, and they’ve reportedly decided on at least one thing: they need encrypted phones....
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Say hello to Safeplug, Pogoplug’s $49 Tor-in-a-box for anonymous surfing
You may know Pogoplug as the maker of little “personal cloud” devices for streaming media from your home to your smartphone, or, if you’re more up to speed with what the company’s been doing, you may...
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Google catches French finance ministry pretending to be Google
Google appears to have caught the French finance ministry spying on its workers’ internet traffic by spoofing Google security certificates, judging from an episode that took place last week. The web...
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Processors can (in theory at least) give up encryption keys through the...
Strong encryption may still work, despite the best efforts of the NSA, but a new research paper suggests that clever audio analysis can recover users’ private encryption keys. The exploit takes...
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NSA’s quantum ambitions revealed in Snowden documents
The NSA is trying to build a quantum computer in order to break today’s digital encryption and create new types of encryption, the Washington Post has used documents leaked by Edward Snowden to reveal....
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If RSA was hoping NSA furor would fade away, it was mistaken
The fallout from a report that RSA aided the NSA’s effort to undermine security software continues to reverberate, as a half dozen experts have pulled out of speaking engagements at the upcoming RSA...
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British pushed for weak encryption at birth of digital mobile telephony — report
Norway’s Aftenposten has published an interesting account of the decisions taken by those who were formulating GSM – the world’s most widely deployed mobile telephony standard – in Europe in the early...
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As security woes bedevil IT, guess who’ll shoulder more of the load?
It’s no secret that the security teams charged with protecting corporate data are over matched. Just ask Target, Neiman Marcus or the NSA. A central security group of a large company cannot keep up...
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Silent Circle gets its first telco distributor, as KPN prepares to offer...
The Dutch telecoms giant KPN has partnered up with Silent Circle, the U.S. security firm that boasts privacy veterans Phil Zimmermann (pictured above) and Jon Callas among its founders, to offer...
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FreedomPop starts selling an encrypted mobile phone
Capitalizing on the growing angst over privacy in today’s surveillance state, virtual operator FreedomPop has started selling a smartphone that routes all data traffic over a secure VPN and uses...
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“Merkel phone” security firm teams up with Vodafone on new Secure Call app
The company that handles the security of the so-called “Merkel phone” – the customized BlackBerry that the German chancellor and other members of her administration have recently started using – is now...
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Snowden calls encryption “defense against the dark arts”
Encrypting our communications is the best way to thwart mass government surveillance programs, according to fugitive whistle blower Edward Snowden, who appeared via live-stream at the SXSW tech...
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Twitter reportedly drops direct message encryption plan
Twitter has reportedly put on hold a plan to encrypt its users’ direct messages. The plan was mentioned in a New York Times piece in October last year, in the context of big tech companies getting...
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Report: NSA knew about Heartbleed bug and took advantage of it, but the NSA...
The National Security Agency has known about the Heartbleed bug, which has compromised two-third of the world’s websites, for over two years, and has been actively trying to exploit it, according to...
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Google may boost search results of sites that use encryption
Google may soon give greater prominence in its search results to websites that use encryption, a move that would indirectly make it more difficult for hackers or governments to track what people do on...
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Time Warner Cable bets big on easy and secure Wi-Fi, rolling out Hotspot 2.0...
Time Warner Cable has turned on the Hotspot 2.0 capabilities across its public Wi-Fi network, letting customers with newer smartphones or tablets connect to its 33,000-node wireless network without...
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Aiming for secure big data, ADVA puts line-side encryption into its 100G...
ADVA Optical Networking, based in southern Germany, has released a new 100G technology for metro network deployments — generally, connecting data centers within a metropolitan area — that includes...
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