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RSA Denies Knowingly Incorporating NSA’s Flawed Algorithm in Encryption Products

23

Dec

2013

Sources have told Reuters that the NSA paid RSA, EMC Corps security division, $10 million (7.3 million) to have a flawed random number generation algorithm included in the BSAFE encryption libraries. RSA is denying it. Recent press coverage has asserted that RSA entered into …

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NSA Paid RSA $10M / €7.3M for Backdoor in Encryption Products [Reuters]

21

Dec

2013

In September, RSA, EMC Corps security arm, warned customers of a flawed encryption mechanism in some products. It turns out that the NSA actually paid RSA $10 million (7.3 million) to make sure the flawed formula would be used. According to Reuters, the money was used to convince RSA to uti…

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Boxer SMS Scam Poses as Firefox for Android

03

Jul

2012

One of our security researchers in the AV Labs spotted an Android application posing as the popular Web browser Firefox and is hosted on several Russian websites (Note that these sites are still up and running as of this writing). The Android application files (.APK) users can download from them not only vary in file […]

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RSA Denies Knowingly Incorporating NSA’s Flawed Algorithm in Encryption Products

NSA Paid RSA $10M / €7.3M for Backdoor in Encryption Products [Reuters]

Boxer SMS Scam Poses as Firefox for Android

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