Dec 19
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.
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Dec 13
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
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Nov 29
Online security is a topic that has never been as popular as it has since Snowden leaked a variety of documents revealing widespread spying by the United States government. Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, and other such networks have all been targeted by the NSA , and as such many users may no longer feel comfortable […]
Nov 22
As with many tech companies, Twitter has been caught up in the government spying fallout, and has taken steps to protect its users’ data, the latest of which was an announcement on the company’s blog this evening: forward secrecy. With forward secrecy, Twitter has essentially enabled a contingency plan against the possibility of some agency […]
Nov 22
Twitter’s new encryption could prevent governments from snooping on old tweets
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Internet services can toughen their security to mitigate government surveillance, but that won’t do much to lock down information that’s already in snoops’ hands. Twitter hopes to prevent those raids on past data through its recent implementation of Perfect Forward Secrecy, an encryption technique that stops intruders from decoding traffic on a grand scale. Each communication session has a random encryption key that never travels across networks; even if spies get full access to Twitter’s archives, they’ll have to crack any PFS-protected chats one at a time. The new policy won’t stop determined government agents from reading your tweets, but it will make them work harder for anything they want.
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Source: Twitter Blog
Nov 22
Twitter’s added an extra layer of encryption in part to make it tougher for the government to spy on
Posted in: Today's ChiliTwitter’s added an extra layer of encryption in part to make it tougher for the government to spy on users. The service will now use Perfect Forward Security just like Google, Mozilla and Facebook which creates unique encryption keys for each session.
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Nov 21
Microsoft today announced a new service called Office 365 Message Encryption. Through the service, users can send encrypted emails not only within their company or organization, but also outside it to people who’re using any other email service from any provider. Office 365 Message Encryption is actually a version of Exchange Hosted Encryption, it includes all features of EHE plus new ones such as the ability to apply custom branding to encrypted messages. The service works with Office 365 mailboxes and on-premises mailboxes using Exchange Online Protection.
Setting up encryption isn’t complicated at all. Administrators will be able to set up transport rules to apply encryption when emails match a certain criteria. Once rules have been set up, whenever anyone in the company or organization sends an email that matches the rules, it will automatically be encrypted. To prevent misdirection or spoofing, encryption is applied before the email is handed over to the outside mail server. When the recipient replies or forwards the email, it will also be encrypted. Message encryption interface is based on Outlook web app, so it won’t be hard for users to perform tasks like attach, insert, reply, forward etc. Office 365 Message Encryption will be available for free to Office 365 E3 and E4 users, it is included in Windows Azure Rights Management that’s already included in the aforementioned plans. It is included in the standalone version of Windows Azure Rights Management and costs $2 per user, per month. The service will be available early next year.
Office 365 Message Encryption Coming Early Next Year original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Nov 20
We’ve asked the companies in our Who Has Your Back Program what they are doing to bolster encryption in light of the NSA’s unlawful surveillance of your communications. We’re pleased to see that four companies—Dropbox, Google, SpiderOak and Sonic.net—are implementing five out of five of our best practices for encryption. In addition, we appreciate that Yahoo! just announced several measures it plans to take to increase encryption, including the very critical encryption of data center links, and that Twitter has confirmed that it has encryption of data center links in progress. See the infographic.
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Nov 19
Yahoo is (finally) going to encrypt all the information that moves between you and its products by t
Posted in: Today's ChiliYahoo is (finally) going to encrypt all the information that moves between you and its products by the end of the first quarter of 2014.
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Nov 18
Yahoo recently announced that it will encrypt webmail by default, and today Marissa Mayer shared that the security measure will be applied across all Yahoo products “by the end of Q1 2014.” In a post on the company Tumblr, CEO Mayer outlined three specific measures to protect user data:
- Encrypt all information that moves between our data centers by the end of Q1 2014;
- Offer users an option to encrypt all data flow to/from Yahoo by the end of Q1 2014;
- Work closely with our international Mail partners to ensure that Yahoo co-branded Mail accounts are https-enabled.
This news is no doubt a response to persisting questions — and court cases — about the scope of the NSA’s information-tapping policies as they relate to internet giants such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo. As the company has previously asserted, Mayer emphasized that Yahoo has “never given access to… data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency. Ever.”
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