BitLocker Guide: How to use this Windows encryption tool to protect your data
A hands-on guide If your PC were lost or stolen, you’d probably cringe at the cost of replacing it. But that’s nothing compared to...
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Researchers Demonstrate New Side-Channel Attack on Homomorphic Encryption
A group of academics from the North Carolina State University and Dokuz Eylul University have demonstrated what they say is the “first side-channel attack”...
100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature
A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched “severe” design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that...
Master Key for Hive Ransomware Retrieved Using a Flaw in its Encryption Algorithm
Researchers have detailed what they call the “first successful attempt” at decrypting data infected with Hive ransomware without relying on the private key used...
Australian encryption laws used to force provider to help in homicide case
When it comes to Australia’s encryption laws, two out of the three arms can now be publicly said to have been used, following the...
Patching the CentOS 8 Encryption Bug is Urgent – What Are Your Plans?
There are three things you can be sure of in life: death, taxes – and new CVEs. For organizations that rely on CentOS 8,...
Storage Devices of Major Vendors Impacted by Encryption Software Flaws
Storage devices from several major vendors are affected by vulnerabilities discovered by a researcher in third-party encryption software they all use. Earlier this month,...
Facebook’s Meta pushes back Messenger and Instagram encryption plans until 2023
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has pushed back its plans to enable end-to-end encryption (E2EE) as the default on Facebook Messenger and Instagram...
Facebook Postpones Plans for E2E Encryption in Messenger, Instagram Until 2023
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, disclosed that it doesn’t intend to roll out default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) across all its...
MosesStaff attacks organizations with encryption malware: No payment demand made
The MosesStaff hacking group has entered the ‘ransomware’ fray with a difference: blackmail payments are furthest from their minds. On November 15, Check Point...