ZDNet

DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification.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

NIST says DES encryption ‘inadequate’

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 ...
BGR

GSM Encryption Code Cracked Wide Open, Leaked To The Internet

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 ...
Seattle Times

Ability to crack encryption code gives NSA means to decode calls, texts

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 ...
NPR

Target: Encrypted Data Were Taken, But Not The Key To Unlock

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 ...
The Baltimore Sun

U.S. to allow exports of encryption Howard firm’s product is key to compromise on ‘the big one’; Code power for consumers; Trusted Information expected to reap $8 million ...

The federal government has agreed to allow the export of the strongest computer encryption systems on the market, paving the way for consumers to have the sort of code-scrambling capability the ...