Open Smart Grid Protocol Alliance Plan to Fix its Weak Crypto

The Open Smart Grid Protocol Alliance, which recently came under fire for a weak crypto implementation in its protocol, will upgrade existing devices, likely starting in September. Harry Crijns, secretary of the OSGP Alliance in The Netherlands, said fixes have been developed and are “under a...

NSA allegedly hacked Belgian Cryptography Expert with spoofed LinkedIn Profile

Cryptographer Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater has become the part of a targeted attack by the US National Security Agency NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ, first reported on Saturday morning by De Standaard. A few months back in September 2013 it was revealed that, Belgacom, the largest...