I just scanned these articles, but just from the fact I don't see a single occasion to talk about crypto modes, such as ECB,CBC,OFB,CFB,CTR etc., I'm unhappy.

20+ years old knowledge, probably badly designed software, some special attack against very bad design, and then a panic-like hype against encryption.

So please, tell the newspaper writers to learn somewhat about security and only after that start to write hype-like articles..
Sad.