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 ...

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 ...

BitLocker encrypts your hard drive and requires a key to decrypt it. Microsoft may give your key to law enforcement upon a valid request. Don't save your key to the cloud; instead, store it locally or ...

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

CrashFix crashes browsers to coerce users into executing commands that deploy a Python RAT, abusing finger.exe and portable Python to evade detection and persist on high‑value systems.

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

People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password managers are therefore extremely helpful, allowing users to access all ...

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Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and ...

OpenAI launches Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk warnings to protect ChatGPT against prompt-injection attacks and reduce data-exfiltration risks.

On a good day, you probably fart between 8 and 14 times, but up to 25 times is within the normal range. It’s something we all do to clear the excess air swirling around our insides. But sometimes, ...