- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- October 22nd, 2014
TorrentLocker Ransomware Reaches Italy and Brazil, Affects Thousands
Ransom asked to be paid in digital currency Bitcoin
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 17th, 2014
FBI Chief Demands Access to Private Phone Data
Now that iOS and Android are getting encrypted, the government agencies are annoyed with people's need for privacy
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 15th, 2014
ISPs Disregard Net Neutrality, Block Encryption, Throttle Speeds
Blocking encryption makes us all less safe
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- October 7th, 2014
Adobe Digital Editions Collects Info on Documents, Data Uploaded in Plain Text
Software also sends metadata from ebooks on hard disk
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 3rd, 2014
Eric Schmidt: Data Is Much Safer with Google, than with Apple
Following Celebgate, Schmidt points out Google hasn't had a data breach in years and says Tim Cook got it wrong
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 2nd, 2014
Europol AD Joins FBI in Criticising Google and Apple for Mobile Encryption
Troels Oerting believes people want privacy, but total anonymity will only help criminals dodge law enforcement
- Online Surveillance
- By Gabriela Vatu
- October 1st, 2014
US Attorney General Joins FBI Chief in Criticizing Google and Apple's Phone Encryption
Encryption blocks prying eyes so it annoys law enforcement
- Web / Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 30th, 2014
CloudFlare Gives over 2 Million Customers the Present of SSL
There are now at least 2 million additional encrypted sites
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- September 29th, 2014
Signed CryptoWall Delivered via Malvertising Campaign on Top-Ranked Websites
Initially, antivirus engines failed to detect the threat
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- September 29th, 2014
All CloudFlare Customers Benefit from Universal SSL
Feature supports SPDY protocol for improved web performance
- Google News
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 26th, 2014
FBI Criticized Google and Apple for Phone Encryption Because It Will Make Data Unusable to Law Enforcement
Perhaps if the NSA hadn't spied on everyone, there would be no need for extra protection such as phone encryption
- Windows software reviews
- By Elena Opris
- September 8th, 2014
DiskCryptor Review – Encrypt and Password-Protect Drives to Restrict User Access
Some say this is the next TrueCrypt: the tool used to lock disk drives with a password
- Interviews
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 4th, 2014
Interview: Tutanota CEO on Security, Encryption and the NSA
Softpedia spoke to Matthias Pfau, co-founder/CEO of Tutanota
- Internet Life
- By Gabriela Vatu
- September 1st, 2014
KickassTorrents Rolls Out SSL Encryption for All Users
HTTPS is now the default way to access the torrent site
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- August 27th, 2014
Crypto-Malware Steals Email Addresses and Passwords, Spreads Itself
Malicious tool relies on free software to carry out nefarious tasks
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- August 21st, 2014
Almost All Outbound Facebook Email Runs Through Secure Connection
Other email providers are encouraged to adopt the secure communication standard
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- August 19th, 2014
Publicly Shaming HTTPS-Challenged Sites Could Lead To More Secure Online Communication
Businesses should be aware of the risk their customers are exposed to in lack of HTTPS