UK's Bletchley Park to host cybersecurity boarding school
Imagine the X-Mansion, but for teenage codebreakers. Bletchley Park will once again serve as a cryptographic hub in the UK. Plans are afoot to create a new “National [...]
Encryption
Feds Can Unlock Most Devices They Need To Get Into, FBI Admits
The FBI is able to unlock or access data on most of the phones and computers it encounters during its investigations, as well as those of local and state cops, according to [...]
Russian users far better at passwords than U.S. users
researcher analyzed passwords used in the U.S., Russia, China, Pakistan and India, finding that Russian have the best and most secure passwords. Americans are especially bad [...]
Should we have a "Master key" for all encryptions?
There is nothing new here… After the Apple vs. FBI battle President Barack Obama asked technology pros to find “the solution” that would give access to [...]
Google to tighten SSL certificate security policies
In a year. Google will enforce its Certificate Transparency initiative next October, expecting site credentials to comply with its policies in order to to be trusted by the [...]
Time to use more secure payment options, guys…
‘Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research.The code has been injected into [...]
Will Bitcoin ever become real money?
“A Manhattan-based federal judge ruled on Monday (PDF) that a man accused of running an illegal Bitcoin exchange website could not have two charges of running an unlicensed [...]
A more neutral Internet?
“For years, the net neutrality debate has been at an impasse: either the internet is open or preferences are allowed. But the Stanford engineers – Professor Nick McKeown, [...]