It’s actually possible for entities with vast computing resources – such as the NSA and major national governments – to compromise commonly used Diffie-Hellman key exchange groups, so it’s time for ...

In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and ...

When you think of an encrypted device that would cause the NSA to throw its hands up and give up trying to crack it, you imagine some industrial grade server, possibly made by IBM. What you don’t ...

There have been several rumors in the past detailing how the National Security Agency (NSA) can decrypt a substantial portion of encoded Internet traffic. This should not come as a surprise to some ...

A new version of the dangerous GpCode ransomware has been detected, using RSA-1024 and AES-256 as crypto-algorithms. According to Vitaly Kamluk of Kaspersky Lab (disclosure: my employer), the latest ...

CHENGDU, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following is a news release from DearMob: DearMob iPhone Manager upgrades to its version 2.5 for Windows and Mac to sport iOS data encryption functionality, ...

Starting next month even updated machines may face issues when browsing websites with SSL certificates that are below the new minimum of 1,024 bits Starting next month, updated Windows operating ...

Researchers are closing in on deciphering 1,024-bit RSA encryption, security industry watchers said following an unprecedented numbers-cracking feat by a group of French, German, and Japanese ...