Encryption Stories for 2015

CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 314
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Swedish Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Quantum Cryptography 101
'Unauthorized Code' In Juniper Firewalls Could Decrypt VPN Traffic 112
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? 136
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites 146
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is 291
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed 123
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses 94
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought 42
ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks 145
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS 204
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector 85
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Proof-of-Concept Ransomware Affects Macs 163
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks 57
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere 111
Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key 128
Pro-Privacy Webmail ProtonMail Pays Ransom, But Hit By DDoS Attack Anyway 101
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
CoinVault and Bitcryptor Ransomware Victims Can Now Recover Their Files For Free 32
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Fewer IPsec Connections At Risk From Weak Diffie-Hellman 28
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
Australian PLAID Crypto, ISO Conspiracies, and German Tanks 62
Univ. of New Haven Cyber Lab: WhatsApp Collects Phone Numbers, Call Duration, and More 67
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
UK Government Proposes 'License To Hack' As Encryption Proves Hard To Defeat 80
Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones 225
Self-Encrypting Western Digital Hard Drives Easy To Crack 74
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? 217
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm 87
Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption 176
Newly Found TrueCrypt Flaw Allows Full System Compromise 106
How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption 91
Edward SnowdenTalks Alien Communications With Neil deGrasse Tyson 142
Chinese Researchers Propose Tor-Inspired Overhaul of Bitcoin 46
Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy 35
India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy 114
Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public 403
Ashley Madison's Passwords Cracked, Soon To Be Released 146
Cryptographers Brace For Quantum Revolution 113
Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time 306
Despite Reports of Hacking, Baby Monitors Remain Woefully Insecure 109
Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016 40
Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption 145
Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption 495
Engaging Newbies In Email Encryption and Network Privacy 83
Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down 128
The Network Is Hostile 124
OpenSSH 7.0 Released 75
Prosecutors Op-Ed: Phone Encryption Blocks Justice 392
Linux Servers' Entropy Pool Too Shallow, Compromising Security 111
How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node 104
Microsoft Creates a Quantum Computer-Proof Version of TLS Encryption Protocol 128
Questioning the Dispute Over Key Escrow 82
Oracle To Debut Low-Cost SPARC Chip Next Month 92
Newegg Beats Patent Troll Over SSL and RC4 Encryption 93
Swiss Researchers Describe a Faster, More Secure Tor 61
The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't 55
Tomb, a Successor To TrueCrypt For Linux Geeks 114
Encryption Rights Community: Protecting Our Rights To Strongly Encrypt 140
For £70,000, You Might Be Able to Own an Enigma 65
Snoopers' Charter Could Mean Trouble For UK Users of Encryption-Capable Apps 174
The Rise of the New Crypto War 91
OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug 45
Crypto Experts Blast Gov't Backdoors For Encryption 102
Chilling Effect of the Wassenaar Arrangement On Exploit Research 30
Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications 260
Angler Exploit Kit Evasion Techniques Keep Cryptowall Thriving 36
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Passwords Transmitted As Cleartext? 251
Amazon's New SSL/TLS Implementation In 6,000 Lines of Code 107
MIT's Bitcoin-Inspired 'Enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data 46
UK Researchers Find IPv6-Related Data Leaks In 11 of 14 VPN Providers 65
NIST Updates Random Number Generation Guidelines 64
Cisco Security Appliances Found To Have Default SSH Keys 112
Ask Slashdot: Keeping Cloud Data Encrypted Without Cross-Platform Pain? 107
Two Years After Snowden Leaks, Encryption Tools Are Gaining Users 69
Encryption Would Not Have Protected Secret Federal Data, Says DHS 142
"Let's Encrypt" Project To Issue First Free Digital Certificates Next Month 97
Samsung Cellphone Keyboard Software Vulnerable To Attack 104
US Lawmakers Demand Federal Encryption Requirements After OPM Hack 91
Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? 196
Glen Greenwald: Don't Trust Anonymous Anti-Snowden Claims 222
Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files 546
Dark Net's Top Selling Drug Dealer Is Making $1.5 Million This Year 132
Samsung, LG Smartwatches Give Up Personal Data To Researchers 46
OpenBazaar, Born of an Effort To Build the Next Silk Road, Raises $1 Million 107
US Tech Giants Ask Obama Not To Compromise Encryption 108
Governments of the World Agree: Encryption Must Die! 221
Tim Cook: "Weakening Encryption Or Taking It Away Harms Good People" 203
Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails 138
Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA 63
How 1990s Encryption Backdoors Put Today's Internet In Jeopardy 42
'Logjam' Vulnerability Threatens Encrypted Connections 71
Australian Law Could Criminalize the Teaching of Encryption 208
Trojanized, Info-Stealing PuTTY Version Lurking Online 216
Online Voting Should Be Verifiable -- But It's a Hard Problem 258
After Over a Year of Police Action, Dark Net Black Markets Still Growing 87
Anonymous Tor Cloud Project Closes Down 23
Poor, Homegrown Encryption Threatens Open Smart Grid Protocol 111
James Comey: the Man Who Wants To Outlaw Encryption 241
USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device 288
WikiLeaks' Anonymous Leak Submission System Is Back After Nearly 5 Years 26
FBI Slammed On Capitol Hill For "Stupid" Ideas About Encryption 174
Why Crypto Backdoors Wouldn't Work 105
TeslaCrypt Isn't All That Cryptic 52
Tor Is Building the Next Generation Dark Net With Funding From DARPA 67
Chrome 43 Should Help Batten Down HTTPS Sites 70
In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV 106
Turing Manuscript Sells For $1 Million 44
The NSA Wants Tech Companies To Give It "Front Door" Access To Encrypted Data 212
U.S. Gov't Grapples With Clash Between Privacy, Security 134
'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple 116
Anonabox Recalls Hundreds of Insecure 'Privacy' Routers 50
TrueCrypt Alternatives Step Up Post-Cryptanalysis 83
Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways 88
Mozilla Rolls Back Firefox 37's Opportunistic Encryption Over Security Issue 42
The Problem With Using End-to-End Web Crypto as a Cure-All 89
Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part 277
After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump 289
The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network 42
TrueCrypt Audit: No NSA Backdoors 142
EFF: Wider Use of HTTPS Could Have Prevented Attack Against GitHub 48
NSA Worried About Recruitment, Post-Snowden 247
Firefox 37 Released 156
Europol Chief Warns About Computer Encryption 161
Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess 267
'Bar Mitzvah Attack' Plagues SSL/TLS Encryption 23
Draconian Australian Research Law Hits Scientists 150
OpenSSL Security Update Less Critical Than Expected, Still Recommended 64
White House Proposal Urges All Federal Websites To Adopt HTTPS 155
Researchers Find Same RSA Encryption Key Used 28,000 Times 132
Yahoo Debuts End-To-End Encryption Email Plugin, Password-Free Logins 213
BlackBerry's Latest Experiment: a $2,300 'Secure' Tablet 95
OpenSSL To Undergo Massive Security Audit 69
UK Parliament: Banning Tor Is Unacceptable and Technologically Impossible 98
Kali Linux On a Raspberry Pi (A/B+/2) With LUKS Disk Encryption 37
Tor Project Aims To Eclipse US Government Funding 53
GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival 143
Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials 340
FREAK Attack Threatens SSL Clients 89
Google Backs Off Default Encryption on New Android Lollilop Devices 124
Jolla Partners With SSH To Create Sailfish Secure 30
Under US Pressure, PayPal Stops Working With Mega 136
BlackPhone, In Wake of Gemalto Fallout, Receives $50 Million In Funding 59
OPSEC For Activists, Because Encryption Is No Guarantee 89
Schneier: Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them 114
Gemalto: NSA and GCHQ Probably Hacked Us, But Didn't Get SIM Encryption Keys 99
Moxie Marlinspike: GPG Has Run Its Course 309
NSA Director Wants Legal Right To Snoop On Encrypted Data 406
NSA, GHCQ Implicated In SIM Encryption Hack 155
Ars: SSL-Busting Code That Threatened Lenovo Users Found In a Dozen More Apps 113
Iran Allows VPNs To Make Millions In Profit 57
TrueCrypt Audit Back On Track After Silence and Uncertainty 112
Darkleaks: an Online Black Market For Selling Secrets 44
Duplicate SSH Keys Put Tens of Thousands of Home Routers At Risk 114
Samsung Smart TVs Don't Encrypt the Voice Data They Collect 153
Obama Says He's 'A Strong Believer In Strong Encryption' 220
New Encryption Method Fights Reverse Engineering 215
Netatmo Weather Station Sends WPA Passwords In the Clear 37
Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools 215
Ask Slashdot: What Will It Take To End Mass Surveillance? 239
The Technologies That Betrayed Silk Road's Anonymity 129
Ask Slashdot: With Whom Do You Entrust Your Long Term Data? 178
GnuPG Gets Back On Track With Funding 51
GPG Programmer Werner Koch Is Running Out of Money 222
Ross Ulbricht Found Guilty On All 7 Counts In Silk Road Trial 257
Alan Turing's Notes Found After Being Used As Insulation At Bletchley Park 121
Silk Road Case: Prosecution Reads Alleged Transcript of DPR Arranging 5 Murders 73
If a Financial Institution Mishandles My Data, What Recourse Do I Have? 224
Tech Companies Worried Over China's New Rules For Selling To Banks 127
Mozilla Dusts Off Old Servers, Lights Up Tor Relays 80
Justice Department: Default Encryption Has Created a 'Zone of Lawlessness' 431
EFF Unveils Plan For Ending Mass Surveillance 282
Omand Warns of "Ethically Worse" Spying If Unbreakable Encryption Is Allowed 392
Google Handed To FBI 3 Wikileaks Staffers' Emails, Digital Data 197
OpenSSL 1.0.2 Released 97
China Cuts Off Some VPNs 222
Data Encryption On the Rise In the Cloud and Mobile 83
Researchers Moot "Teleportation" Via Destructive 3D Printing 163
FBI Seeks To Legally Hack You If You're Connected To TOR Or a VPN 385
Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications 562
Spanish Judge Cites Use of Secure Email As a Potential Terrorist Indicator 174
To Avoid Detection, Terrorists Made Messages Seem Like Spam 110
US/UK Will Stage 'Cyber-Attack War Games' As Pressure Against Encryption Mounts 77
Your High School Wants You To Install Snapchat 157
UK Prime Minister Says Gov't Should Be Capable of Reading Any Communications 329
'Silk Road Reloaded' Launches On a Network More Secret Than Tor 155
Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? 331
Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell 148
Inside Cryptowall 2.0 Ransomware 181
Why Aren't We Using SSH For Everything? 203
Unofficial WhatsApp Library Gets End To End Encryption Before Official Clients 29