First the NSA, and now GCHQ. A university researcher has claimed to find a weakness in a GCHQ-developed encryption algorithm that could allow governments to snoop on VoIP calls. Watch Friday's video to learn more about it. (Episode Runtime: 3:25) Direct YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1vIEBVcgs EPISODE REFERENCES: Researcher alleges to have found backdoor … [Read more...]
Terrorism & InfoSec – Daily Security Byte EP. 177
On the surface, terrorist attacks and information security (infosec) seem unrelated. However, the abhorrent terrorist attacks carried out against innocent victims in Paris have stirred up two long-running information security topics; is hactivism valuable and should governments have access to public encrypted data? Neither of these are black and white issues, but watch today's … [Read more...]
APTs, Updates, and OPM – WSWiR Episode 156
Information Security is a hot topic right now; unfortunately not for all the right reasons. Nowadays, it's not unusual to have a big data breach, new zero day malware, and a ton of security updates all in the same week. If you're part of an IT organization that's concerned with protecting your network, but that doesn't have time to keep up with the deluge of InfoSec news, this … [Read more...]
US & Japan Gov. Hacked – WSWiR Episode 155
A few years ago we'd be surprised to learn about a public data breach once a month. However, nowadays two nation states can suffer major hacks in the same week. If you have trouble keeping up with the weekly security news yourself, let our vlog help you with a short recap. This week's episodes shares two stories about nation states losing their citizen's data, as well as a … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Breaks Logjam and Protects Encrypted Connections
This week, a group of university researchers disclosed a new vulnerability affecting the Diffie-Hellman key exchange. The Diffie-Hellman (DH) key exchange is a cryptographic method for two systems to establish a shared secret over a public communication channel, which they later use to encrypt their communications. Many encryption protocols, including HTTPS, SMTPS, IPSec VPN, … [Read more...]
