European justice and home affairs ministers are putting their heads together to try to decide on…
Category: cryptography
Google is fighting with Symantec over encrypting the internet
Google, which has accused Symantec and its partners of misissuing tens of thousands of certificates for…
Researchers critique security in messaging app Confide
White House staffers have been drawn to Confide by its security features, which include messages that…
Major Cloudflare bug leaked sensitive data from customers’ websites
Cloudflare revealed a serious bug in its software today that caused sensitive data like passwords, cookies,…
Security researchers announce “first practical” SHA-1 collision attack
Security researchers at the CWI institute in Amsterdam working with a team from Google Research say…
Researchers simulate a ransomware attack on industrial controls
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a form of ransomware that can hit…
Facebook challenges email for control of your online identity
Getting locked out of your account sucks. Almost everyone has experienced the frustration of forgetting a password,…
Google’s Key Transparency project aims to ease a tough task in cryptography
Those of us in userland may rarely have to worry about the nuts and bolts of…