We would like to announce our latest Gold Lock 3G version for Nokia phones – now with the ability to send encrypted SMS messages even when the phone is not connected to the internet. Download the latest versions simply by browsing from your Nokia phone to the following URL: “www.gold-lock.com/symbian”. Sending and receiving an encrypted [...]

Iran’s police chief has warned opposition supporters against using SMS text messages and e-mails to organize antigovernment rallies. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam said spreading word of such demonstrations was a crime that carried a “heavy penalty.” Cell-phone and e-mail messages emerged as a key form of communication for Iran’s opposition in the unrest that erupted in [...]

A group of cryptographers has developed a new attack that has broken Kasumi, the encryption algorithm used to secure traffic on 3G GSM wireless networks. The technique enables them to recover a full key by using a tactic known as a related-key attack, but experts say it is not the end of the world for [...]

USB Flash drives with hardware based AES 256-bit encryption manufactured by Kingston, SanDisk and Verbatim have reportedly been cracked. These drives are advertised to meet security standards suitable for use with sensitive US Government data (unclassified, of course) as emphasized by the FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certificate issued by the US National Institute of Standards [...]

New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced in New Zealand giving police and officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone’s online life. The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using a satellite-snooping software called “Sky Grabber”  (cost = $26) to monitor live Predator video feeds. The Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there’s no major hacking going on here, but it’s obviously a huge issue – and we’d say the bigger [...]

An Israeli hacker, nicknamed “Labba”, has cracked Kindle’s ebook DRM, essentially allowing folks to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any reader. The hackers have reverse engineered the ebook code and very close to a formal, software-based solution. It took the hacker only nine days to strip the [...]

The NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that they project will be storing yottabytes of surveillance data. There are a thousand gigabytes in a terabyte, a thousand terabytes in a petabyte, a thousand petabytes in an exabyte, a thousand exabytes in a zettabyte, and a thousand zettabytes in a yottabyte. To wrap [...]

The New York Times reports in this week’s Science section that hardware and software trojan kill switches in military devices are an increasing concern, and may have already been used. ‘A 2007 Israeli Air Force attack on a suspected, partly-constructed Syrian nuclear reactor led to speculation about why the Syrian air defense system did not [...]

A software developer who designed a way to tap and record calls made on Skype and other VoIP networks has made the source code of the spying program public, a move he said will allow other programmers to build workarounds to the potential threat. The programmer, Ruben Unteregger, was tasked by his former company ERA [...]