Encryption
Google Crypto Expert Exposes Trio of AWS Encryption Bugs
Amazon has updated its S3 encryption client after a cryptographic expert at Google identified three security vulnerabilities in how it…
Zoom Wrestles Publicly with its Encryption Demons
Zoom continues to grapple with its demons over the planned roll-out of end-to-end (E2E) encryption, its earning call revealed, with…
Hacker Used £270 of TV Equipment to Eavesdrop on Sensitive Satellite Communications
An Oxford University-based security researcher says he used £270 ($300) of home television equipment to capture terabytes of real-world satellite…
“A Skeleton Key”: NSA Warns Over Critical Microsoft Cryptography Bug
Updated 19:58, January 14, 2020, with NSA comment. Microsoft has pushed out an urgent patch for a vulnerability in a…
GCP Touts New “Lock Google Out” Encryption Offerings
Two new Google Cloud encryption tools will let users "deny Google the ability to decrypt your data for any reason"…
Microsoft Jumps on the DoH Train – Company to Introduce Encrypted DNS
Microsoft is set to start offering encrypted DNS resolution services (DNS-over-HTTPS, or "DoH") joining Cloudflare and Google in introducing the…
Read the Home Secretary’s Startling Letter to Zuckerberg on Encryption
Home Secretary Priti Patel, along with her Australian and US counterparts, has written a startling open letter to the Facebook…
SanDisk Caught Using HTTP, Hard-Coded Credentials in “School Boy” Security Errors
A major provider of solid state drives (SSDs), SanDisk, was caught using unencrypted HTTP communications to send updates from its…
MongoDB’s “Field Level Encryption” Puts Database Secrets in Customer Hands
MongoDB’s inclusion of what it dubs “Field Level Encryption” in the latest version of its core database, MongoDB 4.2, was…
Project Foxhound: Secure Hardware, Network Rolled Out for Gov’t
Security officials have begun to deliver custom-built secure mobile phones and desktops to senior government figures under the much-delayed project…