How to Steal Secret Encryption Keys from Android and iOS SmartPhones

Unlike desktops, your mobile devices carry all sorts of information from your personal emails to your sensitive financial details. And due to this, the hackers have shifted their interest to the mobile platform.



Every week new exploits are discovered for iOS and Android platform, most of the times separately, but the recently discovered exploit targets both Android as well as iOS devices.

Turing Award — Inventors of Modern Cryptography Win $1 Million Cash Prize

And the Winners of this year's Turing Award are: Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman.

The former chief security officer at Sun Microsystems Whitfield Diffie and the professor at Stanford University Martin E. Hellman won the 2015 ACM Turing Award, which is frequently described as the "Nobel Prize of Computing".

Turing Award named after Alan M. Turing, the British mathematician and computer

ENCRYPT Act of 2016 — Proposed Bill Restricts States to Ban Encryption

The last year's ISIS-linked terror attacks in Paris and California has sparked debate on Encryption, and the intelligent agencies started reviving their efforts to weaken encryption on various encrypted products and services.



But, there is some Good News!



California Congressman and Texas Republican are now challenging state-level proposals to restrict US citizens' ability to encrypt

How to Crack GCHQ Crypto Puzzle? — Here's the Solution

GCHQ has finally released the solution to their head spinning Xmas Puzzle, after all, the participants failed to reach the final answer.



GCHQ had released a crypto puzzle, dubbed Xmas Puzzle, on 9th December in the form of a Christmas Card that went viral online soon after its release.



Nearly 600,000 people shot a "Go" for the challenge since early December, but only 30,000 had made it

Patent Troll — 66 Big Companies Sued For Using HTTPS Encryption

Are you Using HTTPS on your Website to securely encrypt traffic?



Well, we'll see you in the court.



At least, that's what CryptoPeak is saying to all big brands that utilize HTTPS on their web servers.



BIG Brands Sued for Using HTTPS: 'Patent Troll'



Texas-based company CryptoPeak Solutions LLC has filed 66 lawsuits against many big businesses in the US, claiming they have illegally

Paris Attacks — NO! We Can't Blame Edward Snowden and Encryption for Terror Attacks

Terrorist groups are increasingly using high-grade, advanced end-to-end encryption technologies so that no law enforcement can catch them.
The deadliest terror attacks in Paris that killed 129 people were the latest example of it.
How did the Terrorists Communicate and Organize the Plot?
The Paris terrorists almost certainly used difficult-to-crack encryption technologies to organize the plot –

How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS

Security researchers have developed a more practical and feasible attack technique against the RC4 cryptographic algorithm that is still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet.



Despite being very old, RC4 (Rivest Cipher 4) is still the most widely used cryptographic cipher implemented in many popular protocols, including:


SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
TLS (Transport Layer

This Unbreakable Encryption Could Save the Internet

The Awareness to encrypt your private data, chat conversations as well as communication is booming like never before that soon the world will mark some day as the International Encryption Day.



This may or may not be possible in future, but Toshiba is all set to create a next level of encryption technology that the firm claims is absolutely unbreakable and "completely secure from tapping".

Microsoft: All Windows versions Vulnerable to FREAK Vulnerability

Recently discovered FREAK vulnerability that apparently went undetected for more than a decade is reportedly affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows, making the flaw more creepy than what we thought.



FREAK vulnerability is a disastrous SSL/TLS flaw disclosed Monday that allows an attacker to force SSL clients, including OpenSSL, to downgrade to weaken ciphers that can be