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Silent Circle targets enterprise users with 'world first' privacy ecosystem
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 10:32
Encrypted communications provider Silent Circle has raised approximately $50 million in a funding round aimed at pushing the company forward in the enterprise market.
Announced on Thursday, Silent Circle said "strong demand" from enterprise customers seeking to keep communication private through the Blackphone product range led the firm to launch a private, common equity round in order to grow and cater for new clients.
OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 10:30
“None of the claims of what comsec works is to be taken saltless: Tor, OTR, ZTRP are lures.” —Cryptome [3], Dec. 30, 2014
For one week, employees at this cyber security company get to play the bad guys
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 09:52
For most of the year, employees of leading cyber-security firm Symantec work toward securing and managing their customers’ information.
This week, they took a break from that. They got to be the bad guys.
Four years ago, Symantec launched its annual CyberWar Games, an internal event that challenges employees to walk in the shoes of an attacker. The Games simulates an information security breach modeled after a high profile incident reported in the media, and employees experience the attack from start to finish as the malicious party.
D-Link remote access vulnerabilities remain unpatched
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 09:50
D-Link routers have several unpatched vulnerabilities, the worst of which could allow an attacker to gain total control over a device, according to a systems engineer in Canada.
Peter Adkins, who does security research in his free time, released details of the flaws on Thursday. Adkins said in a phone interview that he has been in intermittent contact with D-Link since Jan. 11 on the issues, but the company has not indicated when it might patch.
CloudFlare crypto gets faster on old mobes
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-02-27 09:48
Popular denial of service deflection platform CloudFlare is deploying new speedy cipher suites previously championed by Google, maths boffin Nick Sullivan says.
The ChaCha-Poly1305 cipher is three times faster than the resource heavy AES-128-GCM cipher and was not subject to attacks against RC4, Sullivan (@grittygrease) says, meaning things will speed on CloudFlare for mobes.