- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 21st, 2015
Mozilla Outlines Plan to Phase Out SHA-1 Certificates, As 1 Million Sites Still Employ Them
SHA-1 usage is going down, but not fast enough
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 8th, 2015
SHA1 Algorithm Could Become Useless by the End of the Year
The Shappening project just broke SHA1 encryption
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 12th, 2015
91 Percent of Americans Would Be OK with a Backdoor in Their Software
63% of Americans are in favor of backdoors as part of the government's response to a national security threat
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- September 3rd, 2015
Turkey Arrests Vice News Journalists for Using Encryption Software
Two journalists and their assistant arrested in Diyarbakir
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 23rd, 2015
Linux Machines Produce Easy to Guess Random Numbers
These random numbers are later used in cryptographic tools
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- July 2nd, 2015
TorrentLocker Ransomware Wants to Gain Some Pounds
Fake websites hosted on servers in Russia and Turkey
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 30th, 2015
Washington Post Switches to HTTPS
Modern crypto is applied to the connection
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 17th, 2015
Free-of-Charge SSL/TLS Certificates to Be Available Next Month
Let's Encrypt project gets closer to its launch date
- Online Surveillance
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 13th, 2015
Wikipedia Moves to HTTPS to Deter Government Surveillance
All Wikimedia Foundation sites will use HTTPS from now on
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 11th, 2015
Pedophiles Targeted by Tox Ransomware
Script kiddies distribute Tox to the easiest targets
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 9th, 2015
CTB-Locker Is the Most Prevalent Ransomware in Q1 2015
CryptoWall and TeslaCrypt are also relevant threats
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 5th, 2015
Email Delivers Resume and CryptoWall 3.0
Multiple layers of obfuscation in the infection chain
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 3rd, 2015
Russian Crypto-Malware Encrypts Files Completely
Cybercriminals have a heart, but they may lose it anytime
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 1st, 2015
Author of Locker Ransomware Apologizes, Releases Decryption Keys
Promises automatic decryption at midnight on June 2
- Mobile World
- By Alexandra Arici
- May 30th, 2015
Google’s Project Vault Is a MicroSD That Can Encrypt Your Phone’s Data
Google launches security system based on a microSD
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 19th, 2015
Italy and Spain Targeted with Ransomware
Traffic coming from other countries is redirected to Google
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 18th, 2015
CoinVault Authors Release New Ransomware
Kaspersky's CoinVault decryption tool offers no consolation