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MoD unfazed by satellite phone encryption crack

...The Ministry of Defence has said a satellite phone encryption crack by researchers will not affect UK military use of satellite phones... Read more

8 February, 2012 by Tom Espiner

WhisperCore Android app offers mobile encryption

...Whisper Systems has began offering hard-disk encryption for Android with a free app called WhisperCore. The app includes full... Read more

16 March, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Programmer cracks Canon photo encryption

...Programmer and encryption expert Dmitry Sklyarov has found a vulnerability in Canon's OSK-E3... Read more

13 December, 2010 by Stephen Shankland

US government to seek intercept powers on internet

...law forcing internet, email, instant messaging and other communication providers that offer encryption to build in backdoors for law-enforcement surveillance, The New York Times... Read more

27 September, 2010 by Declan McCullagh

Twitter opens up Android SMS encryption tool

...which Twitter published to code repository Github on Tuesday, lets people add encryption to all sent and received texts from their Android phone, and can... Read more

22 December, 2011 by Jack Clark

Ministry of Defence loses track of 188 laptops

...is working to minimise the impact of the loss of information."Where encryption is not possible we ensure that additional security measures are in place... Read more

28 November, 2011 by Mark Say

Ice Cream Sandwich tightens bolts on Android security

...that include the ability for users to fully encrypt their devices. The encryption feature means that a person's data will remain on lockdown, inaccessible... Read more

24 October, 2011 by Seth Rosenblatt

Experts find hole in TLS web encryption

...Duong say the vulnerability compromises TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0, the encryption mechanism that secures websites accessed using HTTPS (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol). TLS... Read more

20 September, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

US orders defendant to decrypt laptop

...whether the US government can punish people for refusing to disclose their encryption passphrase. The Obama administration has asked a federal judge to order the... Read more

12 July, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Google Chrome adopts default encryption for Gmail

...of hacking attempts from China. Google had already changed Gmail to use encryption by default, a mode indicated by the HTTPS at the beginning of... Read more

16 June, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Sony confirms encryption of PSN credit card data

...the possibility that the card data was stolen. While the strength of encryption has not been revealed, its existence is welcome news for users of... Read more

28 April, 2011 by Darren Pauli

FBI denies push for encryption back doors

...in 2010. "No one's suggesting that Congress should re-enter the encryption battles of the late 1990s," Caproni said. She added that there is... Read more

18 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

India rejects RIM's encryption key suggestion

...of Telecommunications (DoT). The proposals included DoT directly approaching enterprises to request encryption keys for the manufacturer's smartphones. In an internal memo seen by... Read more

1 October, 2010 by Ben Woods

Microsoft India hackers grab passwords from store

...store on Sunday — were reportedly stored in a plaintext file, without any encryption. The hackers, who are thought to belong to a Chinese group called... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Ellyne Phneah

Berners-Lee: We need PGP for the people

...has set security professionals the challenge of coming up with PGP-like encryption for use by the general population in emails. Sir Tim Berners-Lee... Read more

17 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

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