The recent attack in Paris by Daesh terrorists has raised the debate over privacy versus the surveillance state to a fever pitch. Supporters of surveillance in the name of national security are using the event to attack Edward Snowden and […]
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There’s no shortage of readily available hacker tools and techniques, and stories in the news about mobile app hacks for both the iOS and Android platforms. Fortunately, security solutions providers have responded swiftly and there are many approaches that one
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Breaches big and small have been in the news, from small organizations losing banking files to global groups like Sony losing seemingly everything to hackers. But with the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that was revealed recently, with
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A team of researchers has discovered a new encryption flaw called Logjam, a bug that allows an attacker to weaken the encrypted connection between a user and a website or mail server. It is similar to FREAK, another bug that
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Leading technology companies such as Google, Apple, and a few others, along with a bunch of cryptologists have requested President Obama to protect privacy rights and avoid any backdoor entry for police access to encrypted smartphone data. Through a signed
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A new ransomware campaign is upping the ante. Pacman can compromise a PC with a single click and encrypt the data. The only way to decrypt your data and get it back is to pay the ransom–and Pacman only gives
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In a session today at SXSW Yahoo showed it still has the ability to innovate with the introduction of new initiatives set to make its email platform more secure and simplify its email service. Yahoo believes that the ideas behind
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Once again the tech world is abuzz with the news of a security flaw affecting Apple and Google mobile devices. FREAK, which stands for Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys, is the result of an old US government policy requiring US
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Box already encrypts data in transit and data stored on its servers. That encryption isn’t good enough for some industries or businesses, though. Box owns the encryption keys, so Box can decrypt or access that data. Box removed that hurdle with
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iOS is more secure than Android in general as a reflection of the underlying cultures. Apple takes a “walled garden”, Apple-knows-best approach that limits the control users have over their devices in favor of both a consistent experience and security,
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