encryption

Even though a number of people have expressed interest in continuing the development of TrueCrypt, the future of these projects is questionable as one of the TrueCrypt …

University of Sussex student Simon Bell has reverse-engineered the Android Simplocker (Simplelocker) ransomware, and has created a Java program that can be converted into an …

Amazon Web Services has some good news for users of S3, its popular online file storage web service: they can now use their own encryption keys to protect their data at rest. …

While speculation continues around the fate of popular disk encryption software TrueCrypt, Sophos conducted a survey of over 100 IT professionals regarding their use of …

The world seems to be turning its attention to the notion of data encryption, and Google is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. On June 3rd, Google announced that it would be …

Crypto-ransomware is quickly becoming cybercrooks’ favorite tool to extort money from computer users. After the amazing success of CryptoLocker, copycats have begun …

A new report by UK-based law firm FieldFisher details legal obligations for encryption of personal data resulting from both industry compliance regimes, such as PCI DSS, …

As part of the global Reset the Net action, the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes computer user freedom and aims to defend the rights of all …

OpenSSL users, you need to patch again. The OpenSSL team released a security update that fixes 6 vulnerabilities, two of which could be considered critical. The first one is …

Google’s unveiling of a new section to its Transparency Report that, among other things, shows which services support encryption in transit, has quickly lead to another …

Google has made publicly available the source code for a new Chrome extension that helps users encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, and verify signed messages within the browser …

The news that the developers of TrueCrypt have abandoned the popular software has hit the security community like a ton of bricks, but there is apparently no lack of people …