California-based security consultant Christopher Tarnovsky wowed audiences at the Black Hat 2010 conference with a presentation on how he broke the Trusted Platform Module.

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.

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.