Europe’s justice ministers unsure on whether to push for decrypt law

 European justice and home affairs ministers are putting their heads together to try to decide on…

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…