“If the crooks keep copying Windows threats that were financially lucrative,” you’re thinking, “we’ll soon see Android ransomware that doesn’t just lock your device, but locks up your data instead, or as well.” Guess what?
Tag Archives: Cryptography
Google says half of email is sent unencrypted
It’s been an encryption-intensive start to the week – good news for all of us who are wary of snooping. 
Fight internet surveillance, Reset The Net
5 June 2014 is Reset The Net. It’s a day to take back our privacy by using strong encryption whenever and wherever we can and insisting that the organisations we rely upon do too.
Naked Security now available in HTTPS
You can now browse your favourite computer security news website and make it more difficult for the NSA to spy on you at the same time!
SSCC 150 – TrueCrypt, Gameover, CryptoLocker and whither mobile malware? [PODCAST]
This week, Chet and Duck dig into the bafflement of the disappearing TrueCrypt encryption software: did it jump, or was it pushed? They also look at the takedown of Gameover and CryptoLocker, and look into what we can learn from ten years of mobile malware.
Move over Heartbleed – here comes another SSL/TLS bug
Which widely used open source SSL/TLS cryptographic library just recently fixed a critical bug caused by a buffer overflow? (Hint. The software isn’t OpenSSL and the vulnerability isn’t Heartbleed.)
Has CryptoLocker been cracked? Is Gameover over?
Gameover, also known as Gameover Zeus, is one of the most notorious botnets of recent times. And CryptoLocker is the Big Daddy of the ransomware scene, scrambling all your data and demanding $300 to get it back. A team of global law enforcement agencies have taken them on…and YOU can help them win!
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.
Which of your favourite websites are terrible at passwords?
The answer: most of them! In fact, the password policies of 86% of the most popular sites out there don’t even qualify as adequate, according to a security roundup done quarterly by password management firm Dashlane. 
True mystery of the disappearing TrueCrypt disk encryption software
Webdriver Torso has nothing on this week’s mysteries! First it was Apple iPhones in Australia announcing they’d been hacked; now it’s venerable disk encryption software TrueCrypt abruptly claiming to have killed itself off…