A bitter fight between the Justice Department and Silicon Valley is expanding as a diverse group of companies have lined up behind Twitter in a case that will help determine the limits of free speech… Read more »
Several prominent security researchers and analysts say they aren’t convinced by the FBI’s evidence that North Korea was supposedly the mastermind behind the hack attack on Sony and the release of… Read more »
The internet seemed to be back up in North Korea on Tuesday, after experiencing a nearly “unprecedented” interruption, according to the BBC and other reports although Akamai said sporadic glitches occurred throughout the day… Read more »
North Korea’s internet went down on Monday, following a weekend of spotty coverage, according to multiple news reports. The outage comes only days after President Obama said that the U.S. “will… Read more »
“Let’s Encrypt” is an initiative backed by Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, the EFF and others. The aim is to get more websites offering secure connections for their customers, with minimal hassle associated… Read more »
Most people are these days using browsers that support the much safer TLS web encryption protocol, but some aren’t, notably those still using Internet Explorer 6 — most of whom seem… Read more »
The Padding Oracle on Downgraded Legacy Encryption bug takes advantage of an old security protocol that’s still supported by browsers, opening the door for hackers. Read more »
The firm is rolling out what it said it would roll out a couple months back, in a move that should provide better protection even for websites using CloudFlare’s free services. Read more »
Currently crowdfunding, Sandstorm is a genuinely exciting opportunity for the creation of a viable, federation-friendly indie web-app ecosystem. It promises the benefits of running your own server, without having to actually… Read more »
The defense research agency’s information innovation director reckons the internet of things will need a “fundamentally new security model”. Read more »