encryption

A breach disclosed by Dropbox in 2012 has resulted in the theft of usernames and hashed and salted passwords of over 60 million users. At the time, the company did not give …

A recent report raiseed concerns about the abuse of DNSSEC to conduct DDoS attacks. The article reported that DNSSEC-signed domains can be used to conduct reflected DDoS …

Whenever I travel, I take data I might need with me on a secure USB flash drive. Ages ago, I would encrypt these files with GPG and move them to a generic USB drive. After …

Verifying a file’s cryptographic signature can help the user deduce its trustability. If you’re using OS X, there is no simple way to view a file’s signature from …

Researchers have discovered a “critical security problem” that affects all versions of the Libgcrypt cryptographic library and, therefore, all versions of the …

The recently revealed security bug (CVE-2016-5696) in the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel that could allow attackers to hijack unencrypted web traffic without an MitM …

Google Duo is a simple 1-to-1 video calling app available for Android and iOS. In order to use Google Duo all you need is your phone number, no separate account is necessary. …

The HEIST vulnerability was presented at Black Hat USA 2016 by Mathy Vanhoef and Tom Van Goethem. In this presentation, new techniques were presented that enhanced previously …

Microsoft researchers have devised a way for third parties to make use the vast amount of encrypted data stored in the cloud by companies and individuals, without them …

Network security has been in an accelerated arms race for over a decade, with IT managers constantly adding new technologies to secure various network resources in an attempt …

The author of the widely distributed Cerber ransomware has released a newer version, and files encrypted with Cerber2, unfortunately, can’t be decrypted without paying …

CyberArk Labs tested over 23,000 ransomware samples from more than 30 prevalent malware families, including Cryptolocker, Petya and Locky, in order to better understand common …