A strong majority of the US House have voted to cut funding for surveillance on citizens or for planting backdoors that let the government slip past encryption that’s supposed to shield communications. 
Tag Archives: Encryption
SSCC 152 – PF Chang’s, TrueCrypt (still!), the Twitter worm and the cost of scammers [PODCAST]
Sophos security experts Chester Wisniewski and Paul Ducklin turn their attention on the week’s security news. As usual, they extract plenty of useful lessons during their insightful dissection of the latest issues…
Here’s what bugging your own office NSA-style can reveal
A US reporter for National Public Radio found that NSA-style broad surveillance enabled by a pen-testing device and software crunching picked up on his research (in spite of Google’s default search encryption), intercepted uncut interview tape, ferreted out his interview subjects’ phone numbers and email addresses, and more. Still think there’s nobody out there interested in your boring data points?
Is TrueCrypt pining for the fjords?
An attempt at keeping the TrueCrypt dream alive has been kicked off, hosted in Switzerland. Will it make a difference? Sophos conducted a poll to see what IT managers think about TrueCrypt after all the news and speculation.
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!
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…
SSCC 149 – Apple devices ransomed, eBay breached, carders busted and more [PODCAST]
Chester Wisnieski and Paul Ducklin dig into the important security stories of the past week, and pull out some lessons we can all learn. If you haven’t listened to a “Chet Chat” before, now’s the time to give it a try!
Is Apple finally getting real about security? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Where does the data breach buck stop? Why do they call them “secret” links? And is Apple finally getting real about security? Find out in “60 Second Security” for 10 May 2014
