Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

Flash Freezing Flash Boys can be implemented with one of two cryptographic protocols, either TDH2 or PVSS. The difference lies in who bears the setup burden and how often the committee structure is ...

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

This step-by-step guide shows Linux users how to secure cloud-stored files with VeraCrypt by encrypting data locally, keeping ...

Quantum computing is no longer science fiction. Labs worldwide are sprinting toward “Q-Day,” the moment a production-grade quantum computer can crack today’s encryption.

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For years, security teams treated ransomware as a technological problem. Security teams hardened backup systems, deployed endpoint detection, practiced incident response playbooks built around data ...

Morgan Stanley initiated coverage on Cipher Mining and TeraWulf with Overweight ratings while downgrading Marathon to Underweight. Morgan Stanley initiated coverage of three publicly traded bitcoin ...

The Nazi relic's history is riddled with resilience errors, and those lessons still apply to defending against modern cyber ...

Ransomware groups are back at encrypting victim data for extortion, in addition to exfiltrating it, increasing chances of receiving payment.

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...