Security

Crypto Researcher Arjen Lenstra Shares Thoughts on Paper Blasting RSA Cryptosystem

What a week for the RSA cryptosystem! A group of prominent researchers published a paper blasting it as woefully insecure, RSA said there's nothing wrong with the RSA algorithm, it's an implementation issue mainly with random-number key gen

IRS Warns of Dirty Dozen 2012 Tax Scams

The Internal Revenue Service this week issued its annual "Dirty Dozen" ranking of tax scams the agency says tend to surface around tax season each year.

The FBI and the DOJ Want You to Report Suspicious People and Monitor Social Networks. Goodbye Liberty

Some of the worst consequences of terrorism come not from the real dangers that terrorism poses but in our efforts to defend ourselves from something that is incredibly hard to define and predict.

Attackers have All They Need From Leaky Cellphone Networks to Track You Down

GSM cellular networks leak enough location data to give third-parties secret access to cellphone users' whereabouts, according to new University of Minnesota research.

Blue Coat Systems Taken Private for $1.3 Billion Cash

Blue Coat Systems Taken Private for $1.3 Billion Cash

Security vendor Blue Coat Systems is once again a private company after the company's shareholders confirmed a December takeover that values the company at $1.3 billion (APS830 million).

Book Publishers Shut Down EBook-Sharing Operation

Two file-sharing sites that allegedly made hundreds of thousands of copyrighted ebooks available as free downloads have been forced to close, after a coalition of book publishers obtained an injunction against them.

Twitter Enables HTTPS By Default

Twitter has enabled secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS) for all its users by default, meaning that traffic on the micro-blogging site is now encrypted, providing better protection against man-in-the-middle attacks.

Goldman Sachs IT Analyst ‘Caught Up in Major Investigation’

Henry King, a high profile IT analyst at Goldman Sachs, is reportedly under investigation for leaking insider trading information.

The Decision to Strip Online Certificate Revocation Checks From Chrome is Misguided, Symantec Says

Symantec says that Google and other browser vendors should help fix OCSP instead of giving up on it

The Lowdown on Google’s Safari Tracking Cookies

A grad student has caught Google with its hand in the cookies jar.