Computer security

Reuters (March 31) -- Security industry pioneer RSA adopted not just one but two encryption tools developed by the U.S. National Security Agency, greatly increasing the spy agency’s ability to eavesdrop on some Internet communications, according to a team of academic researchers. A group of professors from Illinois, Johns Hopkins, the University of Wisconsin and elsewhere now say they have discovered that a second NSA tool exacerbated the RSA software’s vulnerability. Also: New York Post (from Reuters, March 31), ECNMag (from Technology Review, Cambridge, Mass.; Rockaway, N.J., March 31), Sydney Morning Herald (April 1), The Times of India (from Reuters, April 1), The Washington Post (April 3).