Virus analysts at Kaspersky Lab (my employer) have intercepted a new variant of Gpcode, a malicious virus that encrypts important files on an infected desktop and demands payment for a key to recover ...

It’s actually possible for entities with vast computing resources – such as the NSA and major national governments – to compromise commonly used Diffie-Hellman key exchange groups, so it’s time for ...

What if anyone could access your passwords, bank details and confidential emails? The online world would literally resemble a Wild West shootout. Complete and utter chaos. Today, businesses cannot ...

In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and ...

There have been several rumors in the past detailing how the National Security Agency (NSA) can decrypt a substantial portion of encoded Internet traffic. This should not come as a surprise to some ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following is a news release from DearMob: DearMob iPhone Manager upgrades to its version 2.5 for Windows and Mac to sport iOS data encryption functionality, ...

Starting next month even updated machines may face issues when browsing websites with SSL certificates that are below the new minimum of 1,024 bits Starting next month, updated Windows operating ...

Several companies have recently announced cryptographic accelerators. Comparing the various offerings requires a hard look past the “maximum-performance” numbers of decryptions per second. You also ...

Aladdin Knowledge Systems Inc. this week will introduce its Universal Serial Bus-based authentication token, which offers 1,024-bit encryption. Dubbed eToken Pro, the device is about the size of a ...

Solid state drives have a number of advantages over traditional hard drives. They're faster, less noisy and more reliable in general. But now, Samsung's line of SSDs have another huge benefit: ...