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Infosecurity Magazine | December 16, 2015

UK law enforcers have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses connected to the cyber attack on Hong Kong-based educational toymaker VTech last month. Officers from the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) swooped on an address in Bracknell yesterday, seizing a number of “electronic items,” according to a brief statement. “We are still at the early stages of the investigation and there is still much work to be done. We will continue t...

Arstechnica | October 15, 2015

For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies...

None | January 20, 2016

"The Green Party has added a privacy notice to a Freedom of Information (FOI) website which asks users to provide names and email addresses, although the website does not run SSL security. Spotted by NADPO Chairman Jon Baines, who pointed out on Twitter that the Greens were “defending” FOI by gathering personal data on a page without any privacy notices, the political party has told Infosecurity that it would discuss the HTTPS issue “with our IT team straigh...

None | March 25, 2014

Now it has made two announcements. Firstly, use of HTTPS is now mandatory for all Gmail users all of the time, and secondly, HTTPS is also used between its data centers. On the first, Nicolas Lidzborski, Gmail security engineering lead explained in a blog, "Today's change means that no one can listen in on your messages as they go back and forth between you and Gmail’s servers—no matter if you're using public WiFi or logging in from your computer, phone or tablet....