Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold ...

Back in 1998 , IT security researchers demonstrated that DES keys, which were also limited to 56 bits in length due to US export restrictions, could be cracked in less than three days and with a ...

In a move to shed light on the vulnerability of GSM wireless networks, encryption expert Karsten Nohl, with the aid of 24 fellow hackers, was able to compile the multitude of algorithms behind the ...

Though hackers did obtain "strongly encrypted PIN data" when they got into Target's information systems, the retailer said Friday that sensitive information from customers' debit cards should not be ...

WASHINGTON — The cellphone-encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the National Security Agency (NSA), an internal document shows, giving the agency the means ...