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Is Open Source an Open Invitation to Hack Webmail Encryption?
2014-08-21 20:21:08| TechNewsWorld
In a move influenced by Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's email snooping, Yahoo and Google last week announced that they were cooperating on end-to-end encrypting their webmail products. While the open source approach has proven its value over and over again, the idea of opening up the code for security features to anyone with eyeballs still creates anxiety in some circles.
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Do quantum computers threaten global encryption systems?
2014-08-13 14:37:33| MobileTechNews
Quantum computers have the potential to do trillions of calculations a second sending the world of encryption on its head.
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How Yahoo email encryption could help your business
2014-08-12 16:02:01| InfoWorld: Top News
If Yahoo gets it right, then the end-to-end email encryption the Internet company is promising would be a big help to companies concerned with privacy in the use of webmail, experts say. Alex Stamos, chief information security officer for Yahoo, announced last week at Black Hat that the company was developing a browser plug-in for encrypting messages sent from Yahoo Mail.
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Study finds firmware plagued by poor encryption and backdoors
2014-08-12 13:27:38| InfoWorld: Top News
The first large-scale analysis of a fundamental type of software known as firmware has revealed poor security practices that could present opportunities for hackers probing the "Internet of things." Firmware is a type of software that manages interactions between higher-level software and the underlying hardware, though it can sometimes be the only software on a device. It's found on all kinds of computer hardware, though the study focused on embedded systems such as printers, routers, and security cameras.
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OpenSSL, critical encryption component, gets nine software fixes
2014-08-07 13:58:42| InfoWorld: Top News
Nine software fixes were released Wednesday for OpenSSL, a critical encryption component for exchanging data on the Web, although none of the problems are as severe as the "Heartbleed" issue found in April. All of the issues were reported during June and July by security analysts with software vendors Google, Codenomicon, LogMeIn and NCC Group, according to an advisory.
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