A report by EFPL researchers claims that RSA-based HTTPS connections are worryingly insecure thanks to poor randomness.

A team of security researchers have succeeded in brute-forcing their way into the RSA algorithm with a 768-bit keyspace - a feat previously estimated to take 1,500 years.

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.

Microsoft has already been talking about what it hopes to deliver as Vista becomes current-gen and we look to the future. Hypervisors for all?