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U.S. will not seek legislation against encryption
The U.S. administration will not seek legislation at this point to counter the encryption of communications by many technology services and product vendors, but …
MEDJACK: Hackers hijacking medical devices to create backdoors in hospital networks
After the Office of Personnel Management breach, medical data was labeled as the “holy grail” for cybercriminals intent on espionage. “Medical information can be …
TrueCrypt audit shows no sign of NSA backdoors, just some minor glitches
After nearly a year of drama, the widely-used encryption software TrueCrypt has come out from its security audit with a mostly clean bill of …
TrueCrypt security audit is good news, so why all the glum faces?
The ongoing audit of the TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts has reached an important milestone—a detailed review …
The NSA’s Undetectable Hard Drive Hack Was First Demonstrated a Year Ago
News broke earlier this week about the NSA’s “most sophisticated” malware yet: An undetectable backdoor that can filter information to and from a hard …
How Congress Secretly Just Legitimized Questionable NSA Mass Surveillance Tool
We recently noted that, despite it passing overwhelmingly, Congress quietly deleted a key bit of NSA reform that would have blocked the agency from …
US senator wants to ban government back doors in phones, PCs
US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has introduced a bill on the Senate floor that takes aim at government mandates requiring companies to build back …
VeraCrypt a Worthy TrueCrypt Alternative
If you’re reluctant to continue using TrueCrypt now that the open source encryption project has been abandoned, and you don’t want to wait for …
How to Save the Net: Break Up the NSA
By treating the Internet as a giant surveillance platform, the NSA has betrayed the Internet and the world. It has subverted the products, protocols, …
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