Some police and fire departments are bucking a trend to conceal dispatch communications from the public, acknowledging that radio encryption has the potential to backfire and put first responders in danger.
Security
Oct 11, 2016
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Anonymity networks protect people living under repressive regimes from surveillance of their Internet use. But the recent discovery of vulnerabilities in the most popular of these networks—Tor—has prompted computer scientists ...
Security
Jul 11, 2016
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Next time you see someone spilling a drink in a bar, you could actually be witnessing a spy secretly decoding an encrypted message. This might sound like something from a Bond movie. But a team from Israel has used some rather ...
Other
May 4, 2016
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Apple received some 30,000 data requests from law enforcement agencies globally in the second half of 2015, and provided information in a majority of cases, the company's latest transparency report showed.
Security
Apr 19, 2016
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Law enforcement officials in Canada using an encryption key have been able since at least 2010 to eavesdrop on messages between BlackBerry smartphones, an online news magazine reported.
Security
Apr 15, 2016
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Sending emails is as easy as pie. However, until now a lot of know-how has been required to securely encrypt them. This is bound to change: Deutsche Telekom and the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT ...
Security
Feb 15, 2016
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Politicians have turned their sights on encryption once more following terrorist outrages in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
Security
Jan 5, 2016
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Last week, candidates in both the Republican and Democratic presidential debates offered some interesting views about the Internet. Whether it was Donald Trump suggesting that parts of the Internet be closed, saying "I would ...
Security
Dec 22, 2015
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Quantum cryptography is considered a fully secure encryption method, but researchers from Linköping University and Stockholm University have discovered that this is not always the case. They found that energy-time entanglement ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 18, 2015
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Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced the development of a technology that turns biometric data, such as palm veins, into a cryptographic key. This newly developed technology enhances the security of the encryption method ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 27, 2015
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