The last two years have seen an astounding growth in the number of people encountering ransomware.
Tag Archives: Cryptography
Patrick Wardle on macOS Gatekeeper, Crypto Enhancements
At last week’s Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple announced some security upgrades around Gatekeeper and a new filesystem that includes native support for encryption. Mac hacker Patrick Wardle, director of research at Synack, explains whether this a big deal and how the upgrades address some problems he’d disclosed to Apple.
Meaningful Surveillance Reform Risks Defeat
Meaningful surveillance reform risks defeat if the reintroduction of the Massie-Lofgren amendment to a DoD spending bill is derailed because new US House rule changes.
Quantum Computation: A cryptography armageddon?
ESET’s Cassius Puodzius takes an in-depth look at cryptography, exploring quantum computing (one of the resources in the toolkit of cryptanalysts).
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Netgear Router Update Removes Hardcoded Crypto Keys
Netgear on Friday released firmware updates for two of its router products lines, patching a hardcoded cryptographic key and an authentication bypass flaw that were reported six months ago.
CryptXXX Ransomware Jumps From Angler to Neutrino Exploit Kit
Internet Storm Center researchers spot more distribution changes for CryptXXX ransomware.
Google To Deprecate SSLv3, RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP Clients
Google will next week begin a gradual deprecation of unsafe crypto protocol SSLv3 and cipher RC4 in Gmail IMAP/POP clients.
The Illusion Of An Encrypted Internet
Rapid7 released its National Exposure Index, which measures the top 30 ports and protocols on IPv4 and quantifies unsecured services running on the Internet.
Hackers Find Bugs, Extort Ransom and Call it a Public Service
Crooks breaking into enterprise networks are holding data they steal for ransom under the guise they are doing the company a favor exposing a flaw.
Amazon Users Targets of Massive Locky Spear-Phishing Campaign
Researchers tracked a Locky ransomware and spam attack that spoofed an Amazon shipping email that included an estimated 100 million sent missives.