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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Peter Dazeley) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has not been able to break the encryption on the phone owned by a gunman who killed 26 people in a Texas church on Sunday. “We are unable to get into that phone,” FBI Special Agent Christopher Combs said in a press conference […]
Enlarge / Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray participates in a question-and-answer session while arguing for the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at the Heritage Foundation October 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) FBI Director Christopher Wray told a conference of law enforcement officials on Sunday […]
Published time: 19 Aug, 2017 16:11 Edited time: 19 Aug, 2017 16:12 Scientists have developed an encryption technique to protect sensitive genetic information from possibly being exposed during DNA tests. The discovery of the ‘genome cloaking’ method could vastly improve patient privacy, according to biologists, computer scientists, and cryptographers at Stanford University who devised the […]
The new IBM Z mainframe uses “pervasive encryption” to stop data breaches in their tracks. https://media.wired.com/photos/59692e7e996a4d5d7da87e7c/master/pass/IBM-FeatureArt.jpg Wired
Big Blue announced that its latest IBM Z mainframe computer will be able to encrypt all of the data in an enterprise all of the time, bringing encryption to everything from cloud services to databases. The IBM Z can run more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day. This kind of encryption makes sense for security, but […]
Becky Peterson Cisco has come up with a whole new way to fight malware. On Tuesday, the company unveiled a new smart network system. Using machine learning, the network’s Encrypted Traffic Analytics software can sort through internet data to look for telltale signs of malicious software. The service is specifically designed to detect malware in encrypted traffic, and Cisco […]
The European Union might want it to be easier for police to obtain data, but that doesn’t mean it’ll be easy for officers to read that data. The European Parliament has proposed amended regulation that would not only require end-to-end encryption when available, but forbid backdoors that offer guaranteed access to law enforcement. EU residents […]
Now that Pornhub’s going HTTPS, your private browsing will be a lot more private. The post The World’s Biggest Porn Site Goes All-In on Encryption appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
ANALYSIS: As London reels in the aftermath of yet another horrific terrorist attack, the U.K. government has reignited the debate on the use of encryption in mobile messaging services. The attack in Westminster last Thursday left four people dead and many more injured, and reports have since surfaced that the perpetrator, British man Khalid Masood, […]
Enlarge / A figure from the patent that has been asserted against Intel, Google, and hundreds of other companies providing SSL and TLS on their websites. (credit: USPTO) Patent-holding company TQP Development made millions claiming that it owned a breakthrough in Web encryption, even though most encryption experts had never heard of the company until it started a massive […]
