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Cryptographers Attack NSA's Secret Effort to Subvert Internet Security

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Cryptographers are fighting back against efforts by spy agencies to secretly weaken the encryption standards designed to keep the Internet secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 17, 2013

Conspiracy Theories and the NSA

I've recently seen two articles speculating on the NSA's capability, and practice, of spying on members of Congress and other elected officials. The evidence is all circumstantial and smacks of conspiracy thinking -- and I have no idea whether any of it is true or not -- but it's a good illustration of what happens when trust in a public institution fails.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 06, 2013

'Cryptopalypse' Now: Looming Security Crisis

The Internet, and many forms of online commerce and communication that depend on it, may be on the brink of a "cryptopalypse" resulting from the collapse of decades-old methods of shared encryption.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 19, 2013

Zimmermann

Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, in a wide-ranging interview talks about the corrupting nature of big data, the end of privacy and the rise of the surveillance society. He also shared his thoughts on Moore

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 12, 2013

Matthew Green on Crypto Advances, the BREACH Attack and the Longevity of the RSA Algorithm

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the crypto advances in recent years, the BREACH attack revealed at Black Hat and whether it

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 09, 2013

Twitter's Two-Factor Authentication System

Twitter just rolled out a pretty nice two-factor authentication system using your smart phone as the second factor: The new two-factor system works like this. A user enrolls using the mobile app, which generates a 2048-bit RSA keypair. The private key lives on the phone itself, and the public key is uploaded to Twitter

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 08, 2013

Inside the Tor exploit

Some of the people who were most concerned about Internet privacy, and we're using the Tor anonymous Internet service to protect it, may have been the most exposed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 05, 2013

A Couple of SSH Brute Force Compromises

One common and stupidly simple way hosts are compromissed is weak SSH passwords. You would think people have learned by now, but evidently there are still enough systems with root passwords like 12345 around to make scanning for them a worthwhile exercise.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 26, 2013

Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

Whether the FBI and NSA have the legal authority to obtain the master keys that companies use for Web encryption remains an open question, but it hasn't stopped the U.S. government from trying.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 24, 2013

Documents Reveal How the NSA Cracked the Kryptos Sculpture Years Before the CIA

It took more than eight years for a CIA analyst and a California computer scientist to crack three of the four coded messages on the CIA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 11, 2013

Encryption Has Foiled Wiretaps for First Time Ever, Feds Say

For the first time, encryption is thwarting government surveillance efforts through court-approved wiretaps, U.S. officials said today.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 01, 2013

New Breed of Banking Malware Hijacks Text Messages

Out of band authentication

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 28, 2013

Opera says hackers pilfered expired code-signing certificate

Opera Software said Wednesday hackers pilfered from its internal systems at least one code-signing certificate that was used to sign malicious software.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2013

CIA Releases Analyst

It took eight years after artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his cryptographic sculpture at the CIA

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 26, 2013

EMET 4.0 catches SSL spies

Microsoft has taught version 4.0 of the Windows mitigation tool EMET some new tricks. It now detects attacks that attempt to eavesdrop on encrypted connections and is better at thwarting return-oriented programming (ROP) attacks.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2013

Apple end-to-end encryption far from bulletproof

Apple says it has end-to-end encryption for iMessage and FaceTime communications, but users should not interpret that as providing an ironclad defense against government snooping.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 19, 2013

SSLyze v0.6 Available For Download

SSLyze is a Python tool that can analyze the SSL configuration of a server by connecting to it. It is designed to be fast and comprehensive, and should help organizations and testers identify misconfigurations affecting their SSL servers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 22, 2013

Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance

Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are "impossible to intercept," even with a warrant.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 04, 2013

How to encrypt a partition with Cryptoloop

This article will describe how to encrypt entire partition with a Cryptoloop. Cryptoloop is a disk encryption module for Linux. It was first introduced in the 2.5.x kernel series.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 21, 2013

User Data Encryption with FUSE-based EncFS filesystem

Any decent Linux distribution comes with an installation option to automatically encrypt user's home directory. In case you do not wish to encrypt the entire home directory or perhaps you wish to encrypt some random directories on your Linux system you can use EncFS the FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 04, 2013

Linux Cryptography - Page 13

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