Tag Archives: Yahoo

Word on the street lately is that a lot of companies are interested in a possible partnership with the Cyanogen team. They are well known for the CyanogenMod custom ROM, which is based on the Android operating system, but can be customized in various ways. However, the team is perhaps even more famous for their work on the software that’s running on ...

Black Hat security conference yesterday saw Yahoo announcing that end-to-end encryption is scheduled to be implemented for their email service. Yahoo has effectively joined Google in an effort to protect user privacy from spying agencies (and other spying entities). Email encryption has been an issue recently and Yahoo took responsibility on fixing the issue on it’s own end. Google has ...

Heartbleed is an error in OpenSSL, the open-source encryption standard used by many websites that need to transmit the data that users want to keep confidential. For instance, this is used when you’re sending an email or chatting on IM. This encryption works by making it so that any data being sent apparently looks absurd to anyone but the intended ...