Over the past 15 years, password managers have grown from a niche security tool used by the technology savvy into an indispensable security tool for the masses, with an estimated 94 million US ...

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 ...

Ransomware attackers targeting a Fortune 100 company in the finance sector used a new malware strain, dubbed PDFSider, to deliver malicious payloads on Windows systems. The attackers employed social ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Gianluca Di Bella claimed quantum computing already makes encryption and ZK-proofs vulnerable due to “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Gianluca Di Bella, a smart-contract researcher specializing in ...

Quantum computing could shatter today’s encryption and the race to protect crypto’s future is already underway. I still remember the first time I sent a Bitcoin transaction. A small amount, but it ...

OpenVPN secures data with AES encryption, but software-based encryption alone can overwhelm CPUs, especially in high-traffic networks By offloading AES operations to dedicated CPU instructions, AES-NI ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Banking sector security leaders shed light on what it takes for CISOs to prepare their organizations for post-quantum cryptography. Enterprises need to act now to address the threats future quantum ...

You wouldn't use a phone that wasn't passcode-protected, nor a personal PC. So it's somewhat surprising that most people don't think twice about securing the contents of a USB storage device. If ...