Notorious BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay is set to launch a virtual private network service next week which will offer completely anonymous data transit.

A hacker at the Black Hat conference has demonstrated a tool dubbed SSLstrip, which is capable of fooling browsers into giving up SSL encrypted data.

The Janus team - creators of the pro-privacy JanusVM - has announced a hardware based 'privacy adaptor' that routes all traffic across a VPN or the TOR network.

A pair of security researchers are to give a presentation at PacSec this week demonstrating a method of cracking WPA wireless encryption in under fifteen minutes.

A team at Princeton University has released the source for a toolkit designed to perform a 'cold boot' attack on BitLocker and FileVault volumes - allowing access to encrypted files.

The UK government has revealed plans to build a database containing information on all electronic communications made by its citizens over the last twelve months.

The AES encryption implementation in Seagate's Momentus FD.2 range of laptop drives has been granted the US Government's most stringent security certification.