Security News > 2016 > October > VeraCrypt security audit reveals many flaws, some already patched (Help Net Security)

VeraCrypt, the free, open source disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt, has been audited by experts from cybersecurity company Quarkslab. The researchers found 8 critical, 3 medium, and 15 low-severity vulnerabilities, and some of them have already been addressed in version 1.19 of the software, which was released on the same day as the audit report. The code auditing effort analyzed VeraCrypt 1.18 and its bootloaders. “A first step consisted in verifying that the problems … More →

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