Security researchers over at the Ben Gurion University (BGU), Israel claim to have discovered a vulnerability in Android that allows for interception of encrypted data travelling over a VPN in plain text….
Tag: Encryption
NSA wants quantum computer that can break encryption
The National Security Agency (NSA), US is reportedly trying to develop a quantum computer that can break any encryption almost any kind of encryption. According to a report on the Washington Post,…
RSA denies NSA $10m ‘backdoor’ links
RSA security has ‘categorically denied’ existence of any contract between the company and National Security Agency (NSA), US stating that the decision of using Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual…
Microsoft to reinforce encryption, increase transparency to tackle government snooping
Microsoft general counsel has likened government snooping efforts to ‘advanced persistent threats’ and has revealed that the company will be encrypting customer data while in transit between its data centres. Highlighting Microsoft…
Microsoft to beef up encryption to counter NSA surveillance
Microsoft is looking to revamp its internet traffic encryption system as it believes that its global communications system links have been breached by the National Security Agency, reported the Washington Post. Per…
Microsoft announces message encryption for Office 365
Microsoft has announced its plans of automatically encrypting emails on its Office 365 service by early 2014 through its new feature which it calls Office 365 Message Encryption. Under this new feature…
Marissa Mayer: Yahoo to extend encryption to all its products by 2014
Yahoo on Monday resolved to extend encryption to all its services and products by early 2014 amidst reports that government agencies specifically the NSA was intercepting server traffic between Google and Yahoo…