Encryption

Pro Hackers Could Be Spying on You Through YouTube

Bad news, dudes and dudettes. It’s getting increasingly straight-forward for deep-pocketed hackers to buy commercial-grade equipment so sophisticated that it can infect your computer with malware when you do something as innocuous as watching cat videos on YouTube. This is why it’s time to encrypt your shit. Morgan Marquis-Boire, a celebrated hacker turned security researcher,…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Aug 15

Yahoo and Google Working Together on Unified Encrypted Email For 2015

Google hasbeen working towards offering end-to-end encryption for Gmail. But now, it’s teaming up with Yahoo to make both webmail services encrypted in such a way that they both work together. Yahoo has been a little slower to the encryption party than Google. But yesterday Alex Stamos, Yahoo’s chief information officer, announced at the Black…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Aug 8

This Tool Makes Encrypting Files As Easy As Locking Your Door

Encryption options like PGP are great, but the labyrinth of keys and passwords that look like a master’s thesis written in gibberish can be overwhelming. For simple exchanges, there’s now an easier way. A Chrome browser extension called Minilock is offering a simple encryption option for people who want to make sure the files they…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Aug 4

Report: Israel Spied on John Kerry’s Phone Calls During Peace Talks

Earlier today, Der Spiegel reported that Israel might have done a little cellular snooping on US Secretary of State John Kerry during peace talks with the Palestinians last year. Apparently, during the height of the peace talks, Kerry made several important phone calls just using a normal telephone beamed via satellite. Rookie mistake. Israel has…

Tech News Darren Orf Aug 3

U-Boats, Spies, and White Magic: The Invention of Wireless Cryptography

The wireless telegraph station in Sayville, New York was one of the most powerful in the world. Constructed by the German company Telefunken in 1912, it served as a transatlantic relay point for diplomatic messages and business communications. It was a beacon among amateur wireless enthusiasts around the United States who could tune their home-made…

Tech News Grant Wythoff - The Appendix Jul 11

How to Encrypt Everything

A year ago, heavy duty encryption technology was something cybersecurity professionals, privacy nuts, and the odd investigative journalist cared about. Then the Snowden leaks happened. Suddenly, we were all acutely aware of how exposed our data is to the prying eyes of spies and hackers alike. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Thanks…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes Jun 5

Google Now Offers End-to-End Encryption on Email

Google has released the source code for a new extension for Chrome—but this is no ordinary extension. It’s called End-to-End, and it will provide users with the ability to encrypt their email the whole way from outbox to recipient. The new system uses the open-source encryption standard OpenPGP, and should make it easy for users…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Jun 4

Edward Snowden Threw Crypto Parties Before He Blew the Whistle on NSA

Edward Snowden is famous for one thing: blowing the whistle on the NSA. But really, he’s just a normal guy. Before this all happened, for instance, he threw parties like all of us! Wait, maybe not quite: they were encryption parties. https://gizmodo.com/edward-snowden-takes-a-victory-lap-1489090349 Wired reports that, months before Snowden leaked classified NSA documents, he gathered friends…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe May 22

One Month on, 300,000 Servers Remain Affected By Heartbleed

It’s over a month since the world was alerted to the Heartbleed bug, but that doesn’t mean we should have forgotten about it. Quite the opposite in fact, because 300,000 servers apparently remain affected by the security hole. A new scan of the Internet—or at least the important bits: port 443 of IPv4 addresses—by Robert…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe May 9

How Heartbleed Works: The Code Behind the Internet’s Security Nightmare

By now you’ve surely heard of Heartbleed, the hole in the internet’s security that exposed countless encrypted transactions to any attacker who knew how to abuse it. But how did it actually work? Once you break it down, it’s actually incredibly simple. And a little hilarious. But mostly terrifying. You can read our overview of…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer Apr 9

Heartbleed: Why the Internet’s Gaping Security Hole Is So Scary

In the past 15 or so years, we’ve all learned to feel pretty safe on the internet. BigSite.com is surely handling your credit card information safely, at least as safely as any brick and mortar store. Maybe don’t be so sure; there’s been a bug lurking in one of the internet’s most important security measures…

Privacy & Security Eric Limer Apr 8

HSTS: The Security That All Websites Should Be Using

You would think that by now the Internet would have grown up enough that things like online banking, email, or government websites would rely on thoroughly engineered security to make sure your data isn’t intercepted by attackers. Unfortunately when it comes to the vast majority of websites on the Internet, that assumption would be dead…

Privacy & Security Jeremy Gillula - EFF Apr 7

New “Unbreakable” Encryption Is Inspired By Your Insides

A new form of encryption promising to be “highly resistant to conventional methods of attack” could make our digital lives more secure—and it’s all inspired by the way our heart and lungs coordinate their rhythms by passing information between each other. Researchers from the University of Lancaster, UK, were working to understand the complex interactions…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Apr 4

Yahoo Is Finally Encrypting the Bulk of Its Data

We were thrilled to hear today that Yahoo is carrying through a concerted effort to protect users across its sites and services by rolling out routine encryption in several parts of its infrastructure. The company’s statement announced that, among other things, it now encrypts traffic between its data centers, makes secure HTTPS connections the default…

Privacy & Security Seth Schoen - EFF Apr 3

Every Gmail Message You Send Will Now Be Protected by Encryption

Good news, security lovers! Google just announced that Gmail will be all encrypted all the time. More specifically, every single email you send or receive will use an encrypted HTTPS connection, regardless of which device you’re using and which network. Even public Wi-Fi is okay. This is an incremental improvement. While Gmail has offered HTTPS…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Mar 20

Last Month’s Massive Target Hack Was the Heating Guy’s Fault

Authorities may have finally pinpointed the source of the massive Target security breach that allowed hackers to swipe the credit and debit card information of up to 40 million customers. So who’s the culprit? One extremely unfortunate HVAC maintenance man. According to security blogger Brian Krebs, that “third party vendor” who Target had been piling…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg Feb 5

Sneaky “Honey Encryption” Stops Hackers By Drowning Them in Phony Data

It seems like no matter how much companies may try to up their defenses, there will always be some industrious young hacker who manages to evade every roadblock in his way. One team of researchers, though, think they may have finally found a way to turn their defense into an attack on the hackers themselves—by…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg Jan 29

The NSA’s Trying to Build a Quantum Computer That Cracks All Encryption

You will not be surprised to learn that the NSA is spending nearly $80 million trying to build “a cryptologically useful quantum computer.” The Washington Post just published details of the program, codenamed “Penetrating Hard Targets,” based on documents supplied by Edward Snowden. Yes, it’s terrifying. But it’s hardly surprising. A quantum computer is one…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Jan 2

The Sounds Your Computer Makes Can Give Away Your Encryption Keys

You might think your computer runs quietly—or, if you’re unlucky, noisily—but either way you probably wouldn’t expect that its hum could give away your secrets. Turns out, that the noise your computer makes can reveal the RSA keys it’s using. A team of researchers from Tel Aviv University has been analyzing sound recordings made close…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe Dec 19

The NSA Can Decode Private, Encrypted Cellphone Conversations

The Washington Post is reporting that, according to a newly released internal document, the National Security Agency isn’t just swiping location data from our cell phones; they actually have the ability to decode private, encrypted data, putting all our texts and calls right at their disposal. https://gizmodo.com/oh-great-the-nsas-using-cell-phones-to-track-your-eve-1476615078 Though US Law may prohibit the NSA from…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg Dec 13

Pro Hackers Could Be Spying on You Through YouTube

Yahoo and Google Working Together on Unified Encrypted Email For 2015

This Tool Makes Encrypting Files As Easy As Locking Your Door

Report: Israel Spied on John Kerry’s Phone Calls During Peace Talks

U-Boats, Spies, and White Magic: The Invention of Wireless Cryptography

How to Encrypt Everything

Google Now Offers End-to-End Encryption on Email

Edward Snowden Threw Crypto Parties Before He Blew the Whistle on NSA

One Month on, 300,000 Servers Remain Affected By Heartbleed

How Heartbleed Works: The Code Behind the Internet’s Security Nightmare

Heartbleed: Why the Internet’s Gaping Security Hole Is So Scary

HSTS: The Security That All Websites Should Be Using

New “Unbreakable” Encryption Is Inspired By Your Insides

Yahoo Is Finally Encrypting the Bulk of Its Data

Every Gmail Message You Send Will Now Be Protected by Encryption

Last Month’s Massive Target Hack Was the Heating Guy’s Fault

Sneaky “Honey Encryption” Stops Hackers By Drowning Them in Phony Data

The NSA’s Trying to Build a Quantum Computer That Cracks All Encryption

The Sounds Your Computer Makes Can Give Away Your Encryption Keys

The NSA Can Decode Private, Encrypted Cellphone Conversations

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