encryption

“British Prime Minister David Cameron to Ban Encrypted Messengers” — Headlines like this are appearing here and there. But what happened exactly?

CES 2015 was a superb event in terms of the amount of new technology per square foot. But, from an information security standpoint, it did not appear all that positive.

Catch up on our most popular posts from November.

In this Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the move to encrypt the Web, the Regin APT campaign and more.

Google’s mobile operating system joins Apple’s iOS in offering full disk encryption by default to all users in its newest version — Android 5.0 aka Lollipop.

”Dear Chairman, dear Vice Chairman, dear members of the board, let me present to you the annual report… Oops… Just a moment, we are having some technical issues…”

We have bought our very own Blackphone to check its security firsthand.

Yahoo plans to implement end-to-end encryption for all of its mail users, giving normal, non-technical users the power to communicate securely and privately.

Facebook fails to fully encrypt data on its Instagram mobile app, which puts user security and privacy at risk.

Making a case for password reuse, Google hiring hackers to fix the Internet, Apple bolsters security across its services with strong Crypto, plus various fixes and more.

Our study during World Cup indicates one in four networks are dangerous and you must take care to avoid substantial loss.

Google is releasing a tool that ensures all data passing out of its Chrome browser is encrypted in transit, resolving the problem of relying on others’ crypto.

Many Internet-connected smart home systems contain vulnerabilities that could expose the owners of those systems to physical and digital theft.

Top Apps to protect you from prying eyes, mischievous kids, thieves, natural disasters, forgetfulness and of course malware.

Today, regular instant messengers are hard to trust when it comes to privacy. There are, of course, safer alternatives, but are they able to substitute Skype and WhatsApp?

We put too much trust in the Internet. And we need to understand that security products and solutions should compliment a secure mindset.

Headlines dominated by just two stories this week: a seriously widespread crypto bug known as Heartbleed and Microsoft’s end of security support for Windows XP

Cryptographic hash functions are a ubiquitous tool in computing, used for everything from identity verification to malware detection to file protection.

UPDATE: A previous version of this article stated – citing a list on Github – that users on a site called HideMyAss were affected by Heartbleed. A spokesperson from that

Strongly encrypted communications are secure and private communications (as long as there is no monkey-business going on in the way the encryption is implemented into communications software or protocols). Therefore,

Computers, initially created for military cipher breaking, give everyone an almost perfect way to keep our secrets totally private – through encryption. For a long time strong encryption was only