Tag Archives: Cryptography

Yahoo Hacked And How To Protect Your Passwords

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Yahoo yesterday announced that Yahoo mail has been hacked and that at this time it has confirmed a number of users e-mail accounts have been compromised – you may be one of them (and if you are see...

RSA Boycotters To Hold Their Own Conference Across The Street

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After a Reuters report last month claimed the NSA paid security company RSA $10 million for a backdoor into their encryption technology, it was inevitable: speakers slated to speak at the company’s...
    






BitTorrent Creator’s New Software DissidentX Hides Secrets In Plain Sight

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Encryption tools help people keep secrets. Bram Cohen has a more subtle ambition: he wants to help people keep secret the act of keeping secrets. For the last year Cohen, who created the...
    






Bitcoin Anonymity Upgrade Zerocoin To Become An Independent Cryptocurrency

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When a group of cryptographers launched Zerocoin last year, they hoped their cryptography project could upgrade Bitcoin to be as anonymous as its most privacy-focused users have always wanted it to...
    






It’s Time To Change Your Passwords And Here’s How

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The first of the year is a good time for many things, one of which is changing passwords. Most people hate the idea of changing passwords, but it is a necessary evil. The proliferation of key loggers...
    






Cambridge’s Head of Cryptography: I Would Abolish MI5

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Privacy campaigner and Cambridge University’s Head of Cryptography Professor Ross J Anderson has suggested one way to begin stamping out the British state’s unaccountable involvement in the NSA...
    






NSA paid RSA to use flawed code on security software

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The NSA did not only promoted a flawed encryption software to be used on some products, it also paid millions of dollars to a top computer security company to promote that software. This is the...
    






Apple claims that iCloud Keychain stores passwords locally

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According to this document, Apple claims that it can sync passwords across various devices from the company without storing these passwords in the Cloud. If this is true, Apple's latest application...