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 ...
Windows Central

#EFAIL vulnerability: What PGP and S/MIME users need to do right now

Security researchers will be publishing what they claim are critical vulnerabilities in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption on May 15. In the meantime, EFF advises you disable PGP email clients. GPUPG ...
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 ...
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 ...
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

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 ...
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 ...