LinkedIn hack and password encryption
You might remember the LinkedIn hack of 2012. Their password encryption was extremely poor, and it was easy for anyone who obtained the leaked password files to retrieve the original passwords.
Announcements
Major advance in random number generation
An advance in random number generation? Who cares? What's so important about improving the way we generate random numbers, and how does this tie in with security?
Another SWIFT hack
We recently reported that the SWIFT financial network for international bank transfers was compromised. Now there has now been another SWIFT hack.
SWIFT bank transfer network hacked
Banks have agreements with certain other banks in the network, and so when a payment instruction is received, payments are made. In theory, outsiders shouldn't have access and so SWIFT should be difficult to hack.
Encryption debate rolls on
The San Bernardino court case may be over, but the encryption debate is still very much alive.
Draft US senate encryption bill leaked
A draft of the US senate encryption bill has been leaked, and it makes for unpleasant reading. It's called the Compliance with Court Orders Act of 2016.
WhatsApp is now fully encrypted
WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook a couple of years ago, and they have just announced that their messenger application is now fully encrypted, end-to-end.
Major version release of CompleteFTP
We've recently released CompleteFTP 9.0, and it has many enhancements and fixes that are explained in more detail below.
Snoopers' charter update
The UK's now infamous "snoopers' charter" (officially the Investigatory Powers Bill) was debated in parliament recently and has proceeded to the committee stage.
FBI unlocks iPhone without Apple
Last week we reported that the FBI thought that they may be able to unlock the infamous iPhone without the help of Apple. Apparently, they were approached by a third party who had a solution.