Amazon disables FireOS encryption
While Apple battles the FBI over their demand for software to unlock an iPhone, Amazon has disabled encryption in its Fire devices. Any device running FireOS 5 or later will no longer support encryption.
Blogs
SSL DROWN attack
There's a new SSL/TLS attack called DROWN (Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened eNcryption).
Snooper's charter in parliament
On 1 March, the UK's Investigatory Powers Bill (or snooper's charter) was introduced to the House of Commons. It will go through the normal parliamentary processes for a bill.
Apple vs the FBI - latest
Apple is currently battling the FBI, who wants to force Apple to create a version of iOS that enables it to unlock a domestic terrorist's iPhone.
Update on Apple vs the FBI
We wrote recently that Apple has refused the FBI's request to create a new version of the iPhone's operating system.
Critical DNS security flaw found
A nasty bug has been found in the software that translates Internet computer names (hostnames) into numerical addresses that computers on a network can use (IP addresses).
Apple warns its customers about backdoors
Apple today released a letter to its customers that is extraordinary in its content, and strongly related to today's post about the UK's "snooper's charter"
Update on proposed UK "snooper's charter"
Last year we looked at the United Kingdom’s draft Investigatory Powers Bill (known as the snooper's charter"), and criticized the requirement for vendors to install "back doors" into their software
CompleteFTP on Amazon EC2
Some of our customers may not be aware of how easy it is to run CompleteFTP on Amazon's EC2 cloud platform.
CompleteFTP demo videos
We've recently published some helpful videos demonstrating the various editions of CompleteFTP.