Security

NSA director wants gov’t access to encrypted communications

‘Secure’ advertising tool PrivDog compromises HTTPS security

Keeping up with Cisco’s ASA 9.3 code

Find out what is new and exciting in the 9.3 ASA code releases thus far.

How ‘Power fingerprint’ could improve security for ICS/SCADA systems

A new company says monitoring the ‘power fingerprint’ of digital systems can secure them by detecting anomalies in that fingerprint in real time. Other experts believe it will help to secure ICS/SCADA systems, but falls short of being a silver bullet

Antivirus software is falling behind the bad guys

It can take up to six months for AV software vendors to catch a zero-day exploit.

Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar

Superfish security flaw also exists in other apps, non-Lenovo systems

DARPA aims to breach the human-computer natural language barrier

Ambitious DARPA program looks to turn computers into good natural language blabbermouths

Microsoft helps Lenovo, deletes Superfish ‘crapware’ and rogue cert

New Windows Defender signature seeks out and destroys spying app and the self-signed certificate at the root of security fiasco

With $15 in Radio Shack parts, 14-year-old hacks a car

The boy assembled the parts in one night without help