Ars Technica

Securing Email with S/MIME and PGP

Let's talk about S/MIME and PGP for email. I have had a peripheral interest in data security for a while now and lately I've been putting some effort into secure email. I found a working S/MIME ...
Slate

The Most Shocking Thing About Encrypted Email Being Vulnerable Is That Anyone Still Uses Encrypted Email

This week’s headlines about newfound vulnerabilities in the PGP and S/MIME email-encryption programs really shocked me—not because the vulnerabilities (dubbed EFAIL … get it?) seemed so dangerous but ...
The Next Web

PSA: PGP and S/MIME email clients may leak encrypted emails

If you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both ...
CSOonline

Researchers warn PGP and S/MIME users of serious vulnerabilities

A professor at Münster University issued a warning on Sunday about serious vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME – two widely-used methods for encrypting email – which, if exploited, could reveal plain ...
InfoQ

PGP and S/MIME Encrypted Email Vulnerable to Efail Attack

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HotHardware

Researchers Warn Of Critical PGP And S/MIME Email Encryption Vulnerabilities

Security researchers are warning anyone who uses PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or S/MIME for email encryption to disable the scheme in their email clients right away, and ...
techtimes

Serious PGP Security Flaw Makes Email Encryption Unsafe: What To Do Until It's Fixed

Security experts from Europe are warning users who encrypt their email with PGP and S/MIME, saying they are no longer safe to use. The critical flaw found in the two allows hackers to pull plaintext ...
CSOonline

EFAIL: Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs could reveal plaintext of encrypted emails

There's currently no fix for the critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME. Users are advised to disable PGP plug-ins and not to use decryption in email clients. EFAIL … it ...
TechCrunch

Researchers warn of critical flaw affecting PGP and S/MIME

Those who use PGP and S/MIME to send secure emails are being advised to cease using and disable the tools with immediate effect following a major security scare. Researcher Sebastian Schinzel, a ...
AppleInsider

Apple Mail affected by critical PGP, S/MIME encryption vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities have been discovered in PGP and S/MIME that could allow an attacker to read emails encrypted using the standards, with one attack potentially allowing for a message to be decrypted by ...
Ars Technica

Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted emails—uninstall now [Updated]

The research for this post is now public. See this post for details. A less drastic safeguard is to ensure HTML is disabled in the email client, although the researchers have warned that future ...