http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Nokia, one of the world's leading mobile phone makers, said Wednesday it had filed patent infringement lawsuits against mobile phone and electronics groups HTC, RIM and ViewSonic in the United States and Germany. http://phys.org/news255190960.html Technology Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:05 EST news255190960 A research team led by University of Toronto Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo has found a new quantum encryption method to foil even the most sophisticated hackers. The discovery is outlined in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters. http://phys.org/news252577159.html Physics Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:19:42 EST news252577159 (AP) -- The Harry Potter books are finally on sale in electronic form, and they have a special magical touch to them: In a break with industry practices, the books aren't locked down by encryption, which means consumers can move them between devices and read them anywhere they like. http://phys.org/news252087709.html Technology Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:22:01 EST news252087709 TDK Corporation has developed the eSSD series, a single chip 3Gbps SSD with serial ATA interface that uses multi-chip technology to integrate the TDK SSD controller GBDriver RS3 with NAND type flash memory in a single package. Sales are scheduled to begin in April. http://phys.org/news251714839.html Electronics Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:47:28 EST news251714839 (AP) -- Readily available, easy-to-use software can encrypt a computer hard drive so thoroughly it would take years for a hacker to break in. But that seems to be no impediment for government prosecutors, who have obtained an order compelling the disclosure of a computer's contents in one Colorado case. http://phys.org/news249063187.html Technology Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:13:12 EST news249063187 Quantum cryptography is the ultimate secret message service. Now new research, presented at the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting, shows it can counter even the ultimate paranoid scenario: when the equipment or even the operator is in the control of a malicious power. http://phys.org/news248864065.html Physics Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:54:33 EST news248864065 We are all used to logging into networks where we have a unique identity, verified by the network server and associated with our account for other members of the network to see. Such an identity-based network system is useful because it is relatively simple. However, there are three major drawbacks including loss of anonymity of communicating users, misplaced trust and identity theft. http://phys.org/news248705769.html Technology Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:20:01 EST news248705769 Researchers on Wednesday revealed a flaw in the way data is scrambled to protect the privacy of online banking, shopping and other kinds of sensitive exchanges. http://phys.org/news248589416.html Technology Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:37:27 EST news248589416 Users of Google smartphone wallets were being warned on Friday that there is a way to crack pass codes intended to thwart thieves from going on illicit shopping sprees. http://phys.org/news248119483.html Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:04:59 EST news248119483 Satellite telephony was thought to be secure against eavesdropping. German researchers at the Horst Gortz Institute for IT-Security (HGI) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB) have cracked the encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), which is used globally for satellite telephones, and revealed significant weaknesses. In less than an hour, and with simple equipment, they found the crypto key which is needed to intercept telephone conversations. Using open-source software and building on their previous research results, they were able to exploit the security weaknesses. http://phys.org/news247917956.html Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:06:13 EST news247917956 Sony Corporation has been working to standardize ‘CLEFIA,’ the block cipher algorithm it developed and presented as a state-of-the-art cryptography technique in 2007, and announced today that after final ISO/IEC approval, ‘CLEFIA’ was adopted as one of the ISO/IEC 29192 International Standards in lightweight cryptography. http://phys.org/news246787477.html Technology Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:05:09 EST news246787477 Less and less of today's computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases. This raises some crucial questions about security: Can we, for instance, perform computations on data stored in 'the cloud' without letting anyone else see our information? Research carried out at the Weizmann Institute and MIT is moving us closer to the ability to work on data while it is still encrypted, giving an encrypted result that can later be securely deciphered. http://phys.org/news243164223.html Technology Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:37:09 EST news243164223 Alice and Bob have broken up and have moved as far away from each other as possible. But they still have something to sort out: who gets to keep the car. Flipping a coin while talking on the phone to decide who gets to keep it just won't work. There's no trust. Neither believes each other's result. http://phys.org/news241796645.html Physics Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:20:01 EST news241796645 (PhysOrg.com) -- A joint U.S./UK research team has found that common encryption techniques are so good that law enforcement, from local to highly resourceful federal agencies, are unable to get at data on a computer hard disk that could be used to prove the guilt of people using the computer to perpetuate crimes. In looking at the current technology, the team, as they describe in their paper published in Digital Investigation, find that if criminals use commonly available hard drive encryption software, law enforcement very often is unable find anything that can be used against them. http://phys.org/news241086969.html Electronics Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:36:32 EST news241086969 Standards are supposed to guarantee security, especially in the WWW. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main force behind standards like HTML, XML, and XML Encryption. But implementing a W3C standard does not mean that a system is secure. Researchers from the chair of network and data security have found a serious attack against XML Encryption. "Everything is insecure", is the uncomfortable message from Ruhr-University Bochum researchers. http://phys.org/news238236903.html Technology Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:55:15 EST news238236903 It was announced last week that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure online transactions – a scheme known as AES-256. http://phys.org/news233335046.html Technology Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:18:20 EST news233335046 Millions of Americans have implantable medical devices, from pacemakers and defibrillators to brain stimulators and drug pumps; worldwide, 300,000 more people receive them every year. Most such devices have wireless connections, so that doctors can monitor patients' vital signs or revise treatment programs. But recent research has shown that this leaves the devices vulnerable to attack: In the worst-case scenario, an attacker could kill a victim by instructing an implantable device to deliver lethal doses of medication or electricity. http://phys.org/news227181203.html Technology Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:53:41 EST news227181203 Sony Corporation announces today the launch of the next generation FeliCa IC chip with enhanced security adopting the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) encryption. The new IC chip will support AES as well as the existing DES encryption system for mutual authentication and data communication. The sample chip will be available for shipment from this winter, and mass production will start in the spring of 2012. http://phys.org/news227176850.html Technology Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:41:10 EST news227176850 Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new encryption hardware for use with NVMM to protect personal information and other data. http://phys.org/news224846951.html Technology Tue, 17 May 2011 11:20:05 EST news224846951 (AP) -- Sony is telling PlayStation users that it had encrypted the credit card data that hackers may have stolen, reducing the chances that thieves could have used the information. http://phys.org/news223205242.html Technology Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:27:34 EST news223205242 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new way to hide your secrets has been created, which is good news for both the spies and the generally duplicitous regular people of the world. This new system, instead of relying on traditional methods of hiding data such as encryption to scramble the text, hides information in an entirely different way. The newest thing in covert operations it to manipulate the location of data fragments. Essentially, the data is still being scrambled, but it is in an entirely different way. http://phys.org/news223056036.html Technology Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:01:06 EST news223056036 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have achieved a breakthrough in quantum communications and computing using a teleporter and a paradoxical cat. http://phys.org/news222074638.html Physics Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:24:16 EST news222074638 The Russian security service is proposing to ban Skype, Hotmail, and Gmail as their "uncontrolled use" may threaten Russia's security, a service official said during a government meeting on Friday. http://phys.org/news221479072.html Technology Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:58:01 EST news221479072 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Wi-Fi Alliance has begun certifying laptop components incorporating the new Wi-Fi Direct technology, which provides peer-to-peer (P2P) Wi-Fi connections between devices such as cameras and smart phones without the need for a Wi-Fi access point or Wi-Fi network. http://phys.org/news207288709.html Technology Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:12:34 EST news207288709 India is seeking to find an "appropriate" means to monitor messages and corporate emails sent through Blackberry smart phones, a top government official has said. http://phys.org/news205235473.html Technology Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:51:30 EST news205235473 Seagate today announced that its groundbreaking Momentus Self-Encrypting Drive, the world’s first laptop hard drive with built-in encryption to protect against unauthorized access to information on lost or stolen mobile computers, has secured FIPS 140-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). http://phys.org/news203690535.html Electronics Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:00:01 EST news203690535 India's government on Wednesday said BlackBerry, Google, Skype and other communications providers must set up servers in the country to allow security forces to intercept Internet data. http://phys.org/news202548933.html Technology Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:30:01 EST news202548933 India says it is standing firm in its demand for security agencies to have access to BlackBerry messages after giving the smartphone's makers a 60-day reprieve on a threat to ban core services. http://phys.org/news202535803.html Technology Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:20:02 EST news202535803 BlackBerry may have won a reprieve but Google and Skype were squarely in the firing line Tuesday as India's security agencies widened their crackdown on telecom firms. http://phys.org/news202448786.html Technology Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:10:01 EST news202448786 (AP) -- India withdrew a threat Monday to ban BlackBerry services for at least two more months after the device's maker, Research In Motion Ltd., said it would give security agencies greater access to corporate e-mail and instant messaging. http://phys.org/news202386960.html Technology Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:36:08 EST news202386960