Lavabit, Silent Circle Form New Anti-Surveillance Dark Mail Alliance

As the stunning revelations about the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities continue to mount, two secure email providers that have shut down their services in recent months have formed a new alliance to develop and deploy a new secure email platform that will be resistant to surveillance and...

Lavabit Founder Refused to be FBI 'Listening Post'

Faced with the untenable decision of becoming what he called a “listening post” for the FBI, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison said he had an ethical obligation to his customers and the community to shut down the secure email service used by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Levison, who this week...

Frequently Unanswered Questions on the NSA Leaks

The flood of documents regarding the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities that have been leaked this summer has produced thousands of news stories and several metric tons of speculation about what it all means. But for all of the postulating, analysis and reporting, there are still a lot of...

CVE-2006-2036

iOpus Secure Email Attachments SEA, probably 1.0, does not properly handle passwords that consist of repetitions of a substring, which allows attackers to decrypt files by entering only the substring...

CVE-2006-2036

CVE-2006-2036 affects iOpus Secure Email Attachments (SEA) 1.0. Root cause: improper handling of passwords that are repetitions of a substring, enabling an attacker to decrypt files by entering only the substring. Impact: partial confidentiality. No remediation details are provided in the supplie...

CVE-2006-2036

iOpus Secure Email Attachments SEA, probably 1.0, does not properly handle passwords that consist of repetitions of a substring, which allows attackers to decrypt files by entering only the substring...