Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
One of the official webpages for the widely used TrueCrypt encryption program says that development has abruptly ended and warns users of the decade-old tool that it isn't safe to use.
"WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues," text in red at the top of ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2014
People accessing the Internet over open WiFi networks are now vulnerable to having their WordPress webpage hijacked even with two-step authentication enabled. This new vulnerability was found by Yan Zhu, a staff technologist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Zhu found that when accessing WordPress, the site sends a cookie in plain text ...
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Monday, April 7th, 2014
The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library. This weakness allows stealing the information protected, under normal conditions, by the SSL/TLS encryption used to secure the Internet. SSL/TLS provides communication security and privacy over the Internet for applications such as web, email, instant messaging ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2014
There are various ways to protect a wireless network. Some are generally considered to be more secure than others. Some, such as WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), were broken several years ago and are not recommended as a way to keep intruders away from private networks. Now, a new study published ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2014
A source code mistake in the GnuTLS library an open-source software building block used in a large number of different Linux distributions to handle secure Internet connections could prove a serious threat to the privacy of Linux users, as developers rush to patch the vulnerability.
Nikos Mavrogiannopolous, the developer of GnuTLS, ...
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