Neowin News Feed for: Encryption

US military green-lights secure version of Android for use by soldiers

Andy Weir — Fri, 03 May 2013 12:02:51 +0100

The US Department of Defense has approved Samsung phones running a secure version of Android, known as 'Knox', for use by American soldiers, with further devices expecting approval this month. Read more...

Dropbox introduce ‘Dropbox for Business'

Andrew Stevenson — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:26:28 +0100

With cloud based storage & sharing becoming ever present in the home, Dropbox are venturing into the corporate world by introducing Dropbox for Business, adding security and collaborative features. Read more...

HTTPS Everywhere 3.0 protects users on-line

Alfonso Maruccia — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:33:30 +0100

The “encryption-enabler” browser add-on made by the EFF collective gets a new update, adding up many web sites to its protection list and promising a safer World Wide Web for everyone. Read more...

iOS encryption is impossible to crack by NSA's standards

Nathan Tsui — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:15:52 +0100

After a rocky launch, Apple invested more heavily into iPhone security, which is now so good that security experts believe it to be impossible to crack by the NSA's standards. Read more...

Silent Circle will encrypt all your communications for a fee

Alfonso Maruccia — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 01:40:23 +0100

A new company plans to offer encrypted communications “for the masses” on any digital device or computer available nowadays. For a fee, because on-line privacy costs money. Read more...

The NSA's new spy center will see everything

Tyler Holman — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:08:17 +0000

Imagine a heavily guarded supercomputer deep in the desert, keeping tabs on everything that passes through the net, all the while working to break the encryption. Sound like bad Sci-Fi? It's not. Read more...

TrueCrypt 7.1a

Steven Parker — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:09:29 +0000

TrueCrypt is a software system for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted drive. On-the-fly encryption means that data are automatically encrypted or decrypted without user intervention. Read more...

TrueCrypt 7.1

Steven Parker — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:11:21 +0100

Pakistan bans encryption because of ‘terrorists'

Christopher White — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:37:33 +0100

Pakistan has banned all unauthorized VPN use, and has requested ISPs to report customers who continue to use this technology. Big Brother is watching... Read more...

Microsoft introduces encrypted keyboard and mouse desktop set

Byron Hinson — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 12:43:55 +0100

Microsoft has launched its brand new encrypted Wireless Desktop 2000 keyboard and mouse hardware set. The keyboard becomes the company’s first device to feature Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128-Bit Encryption, the same technology that is... Read more...

Man suspected of child porn simply didn't secure wireless router

Christopher White — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 20:48:37 +0100

A Buffalo, NY man had a rude awakening one morning when federal officers broke down the door to his house, threw him down the stairs and aimed assault weapons at him while yelling, “Pedophile!” ... Read more...

Twitter rolls out improved HTTPS support

Mike Brown — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 23:33:20 +0000

Twitter today announced the introduction of improvements to its HTTPS access by allowing users to permanently access the site via HTTPS. In a post to their blog, the company detailed the changes that will allow... Read more...

SSD hard drives may be a trade of speed over security

Brandon Boyce — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:34:34 +0000

Researchers at the University of California in San Diego have found that the tried and true techniques used to erase a typical hard drive aren't quite as effective when used on solid state drives(SSD). The... Read more...

Apple creating a cloud-based FileVault?

Byron Hinson — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:57:39 +0000

Today’s Apple rumor mill mentions the possibility that Mac OS 10.7 Lion will ship with a cloud-based FileVault, allowing encrypted file storage on Apple’s servers. The rumor comes about thanks to the release of a... Read more...

Facebook to offer user ID encryption

Tzvi Friedman — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:20:44 +0100

In response to a scathing article in the Wall Street Journal last week that revealed Facebook apps collecting and selling user information to ad networks and other data mining outfits, Facebook posted today in its... Read more...

MD5 encryption broken, Microsoft warns

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:49:04 +0000

Microsoft Security Advisory warned today that a possible attack against the MD5 hash digital certificate could allow an attacker to generate their own certificate with information from the original. Microsoft warned that only the... Read more...

'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled

Tom Warren — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:39:23 +0100

Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with the launch of the world's first computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna. The network connects six locations across Vienna... Read more...

Memory trick breaks PC encryption

Lt-DavidW — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:02:46 +0000

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Encrypted information held on a laptop is more vulnerable than previously thought, US research has shown. Scientists have shown that it is possible to recover the key that unscrambles data from a PC's memory. It... Read more...

RIAA: Client side filtering to stop piracy via encryption

Simon Andrews — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:33:17 +0000

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As if an ISP filtering what content gets to you wasn't enough, Cary Sherman of the infamous RIAA says that the only way to really defeat piracy is via a client-side monitoring service, much like... Read more...

Skype encryption stumps German police

Tom Warren — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:26:54 +0000

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German police are unable to decipher the encryption used in the Internet telephone software Skype to monitor calls by suspected criminals and terrorists, Germany's top police officer said on Thursday. Skype allows users to make... Read more...