Plans are being laid around the world for Alan Turing's centenary celebration, and University of Canterbury professor Jack Copeland is doing his part to honour the father of modern computing.
Copeland is compiling information for exhibits at the Bletchley Park museum in England that will be dedicated to Turing. Bletchley Park was where Turing worked to break German communication codes during World War II.
Square, the mobile payment upstart that's combined a credit card-reading dongle with the iPhone and iPad to take on established point-of-sale (POS) payment solutions providers, has just announced that it's finally bringing much needed encryption to its device.
With the sheer number of usernames, e-mail addresses, screen names, social media accounts and other online services we depend on, it's no wonder that many times users resort to using easy to remember passwords or end up sending passwords and hints to their e-mail inboxes. Not really what you would call “best security practice”.
The Internet is already buzzing about the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference that will take place in Amsterdam between May 21 and May 25. Among the interesting subjects presented at the event, there are also the flaws discovered by a Polish security researcher in digital satellite TV set-top-boxes and Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) chipsets.
L33tdawg: Adam's first talk will be on Security Threats in the World of Digital Satellite Television, in which he'll be showing off the functionality of his 34,000 lines long Proof of Concept code and 20+ 0days in the Polish satellite TV operator.
Encryption is now viewed as a strategic issue with business leaders gaining greater influence over their organization’s encryption strategy, according to Richard Moulds, the vice president for product management and strategy at Thales e-Security.
Colorado federal authorities have decrypted a laptop seized from a bank-fraud defendant, mooting a judge’s order that the defendant unlock the hard drive so the government could use its contents as evidence against her.
The development ends a contentious legal showdown over whether forcing a defendant to decrypt a laptop is a breach of the Fifth Amendment right against compelled self incrimination.
The government is urging a federal appeals court not to entertain an appeal from a bank-fraud defendant who has been ordered to decrypt her laptop so its contents can be used in her criminal case.
Colorado federal authorities seized the encrypted Toshiba laptop from defendant Ramona Fricosu in 2010 with valid court warrants while investigating alleged mortgage fraud, and demanded she decrypt it.
Mozilla plans to ask all certificate authorities to review their subordinate CA certificates and revoke those that could be used by companies to inspect SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)-encrypted traffic for domain names they don't control.
Cryptography researchers collected millions of X.509 public-key certificates that are publicly available over the web and found what they say is a shockingly high frequency of duplicate RSA-moduli keys.
