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Here's how to protect yourself from the latest online scourge of hackers encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to unlock them.
An open letter signed by security experts from around the world is calling on governments to protect encryption rather than undermine it in a quixotic attempt to tackle terrorism.
Banning encryption won't help, and probably isn't possible anyway.
With attacks against Tor increasing, prototype anonymising software Vuvuzela takes a different approach.
The Investigatory Powers Bill raises plenty of questions. Here are the answers.
The snooper's charter is here, and it's as bad as expected. Here's three problems that need fixing.
There's a dark side of the internet, where almost anything goes, or can be bought for the right price.
In what has been labelled as poetic justice by some, the Hacking Team, an Italian company that sells mass computer and mobile device surveillance software has itself been hacked. The alleged hackers, tweeting…
The government's Defence Trade Controls Act effectively makes teaching encryption a criminal act and considers even a simple calculator as a potential weapon.
Freed of the Liberal Democrats' influence, here are some of the things the Conservative government has in store for us.
Invisible under normal light but fluorescent under UV light, this ink can print out unique signatures that use 'molecular encryption' to authenticate anything they tag.
Encryption has come a long way since the days of Sparta and Rome, but it's still not 100% secure.
PC box shifter Lenovo's public whipping for serving up malware in its default installs should be a lesson to all.
The Silk Road trial has concluded, with Ross Ulbricht found guilty of running the anonymous online marketplace for illegal goods. But questions remain over how the FBI found its way through Tor, the software…
Prime Minister David Cameron has stated that the UK government will look at “switching off” some forms of encryption in order to make society safer from terror attacks. This might make a grand statement…
Ex-National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden’s various leaks – the most recent being a slide showing that the NSA infected 50,000 of computer networks with remote-controlled spyware – confirm…
Thanks to two studies published in Nature last Thursday, the chance of successful teleportation has considerably increased. Which is a good thing, right? Whether or not you’ve ever been on a long-haul…
I just did a count of the systems I use that require a password and gave up at 40. I know I’m not alone; for many of us, it often seems we have too many passwords to manage. They are, however, required…
Australia Post have every reason to be pleased with their role in the online shopping revolution. They are central to the process by providing a means of converting the virtual into the real, by delivering…
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