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Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web
Submitted by l33tdawg on Tue, 2013-12-03 08:31
Tim Berners-Lee is known as the gentle genius with the mild touch, a man who is strikingly modest despite having created one of the epochal inventions of the modern age, the world wide web. But get him on the subject of what the National Security Agency and its British equivalent, GCHQ, have been doing to crack encryption used by hundreds of millions of people to protect their personal data online, and his face hardens, his eyes squint and he fumes.
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Microsoft Plans Server Encryption To Beat The NSA
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2013-12-02 03:53
Microsoft is planning to encrypt some or all of the data traffic moving through its servers in an attempt to protect both its consumers and, presumably, its own corporate secrets, according to a report from the Washington Post.
The maneuver is prompted by concerns that the NSA has tapped critical communications links inside the company's networks, "people familiar with the emerging plans" told the Post.
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Microsoft, suspecting NSA spying, to ramp up efforts to encrypt its Internet traffic
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-11-27 01:33
Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic after concluding that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications systems, said people familiar with the emerging plans.
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Salesforce: Customers Hungry For Better Encryption After NSA Snooping
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2013-11-22 00:19
Despite CEO Marc Benioff’s claim that Edward Snowden’s leaks on mass surveillance were “irrelevant” for Salesforce, another executive at the cloud giant has claimed customers were keen to see improved security in response to the explosive revelations.
Benioff told journalists at the company’s Dreamforce conference this week the leaks had not been a “a major issue”, saying the customer data Salesforce dealt with was not the kind the US government typically went after.
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Cryptolocker: The evolution of extortion
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2013-11-20 08:09
The Cryptolocker Trojan is an evolution of "ransomware," not a revolutionary change from past criminal attempts to extort money from PC owners, a security expert said today.
And the recent media blitz about the ransomware has elements of exaggeration about it.
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