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Encryption
Kim Dotcom’s MEGAchat promises encrypted video chats in browsers
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2015-01-23 03:36
Recent world events have gotten many tech companies concerned about security and privacy. Some of them have scrambled to add, enhance, or even enforce security measures like encryption while governments and their leaders, like Cameron and now Obama, have scrambled to have them blocked or at the very least weakened. Chat apps and services are one of the common targets and we've seen many old and new ones wave the encryption flag as a major feature. MEGAchat is just one of the latest to join that roster and it comes from a man who should know the situation all too well.
Euro security agency says MORE crypto needed in gov policy
Submitted by l33tdawg on Wed, 2015-01-14 09:23
Governments need to build more privacy into legislation,technology vendors need to step up and compliance cops should crack down to push privacy-enhancing technologies out of the labs, says the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA).
How the Colombian army sent a hidden message to hostages… using a pop song
Submitted by l33tdawg on Thu, 2015-01-08 02:16
Colonel Jose Espejo was a man with a problem. As the Colombian army’s communications expert watched the grainy video again, he saw kidnapped soldiers chained up inside barbed-wire pens in a hostage camp deep in the jungle, guarded by armed FARC guerillas. Some had been hostages for more than 10 years, and many suffered from a grim, flesh-eating disease caused by insect bites.
Lock your cloud backups away with an encryption key
Submitted by l33tdawg on Mon, 2015-01-05 03:16
It’s generally easier to keep safe the files we have under our control, on our internal and external drives, than those that waft far away from us on cloud-storage backup systems. Different backup services handle how they send data for storage and how they encrypt it once it arrives.
Stealing encryption keys through the power of touch
Submitted by l33tdawg on Fri, 2014-08-22 02:04
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have demonstrated an attack against the GnuPG encryption software that enables them to retrieve decryption keys by touching exposed metal parts of laptop computers.