Security News

Second Crypto Bug in Networking Library Could Affect 25,000 Apps (Threatpost)
2015-04-27 15:38

A few weeks after the developers of the AFNetworking library that’s popular among iOS and OS X app developers patched a serious bug in the library that enabled man-in-the-middle attacks, another,...

Crypto ‘Front Door’ Debate Likely to Go On For Years (Threatpost)
2015-04-21 18:42

SAN FRANCISCO–Encryption is the hot new topic in security at the moment, as it has been any number of times in the last few decades. And, as in the past, the notions of key escrow, mandated legal...

New crypto-ransomware "quarantines" files, downloads info-stealer (Help Net Security)
2015-04-07 13:24

Trend Micro researchers have found and analyzed a new piece of crypto-ransomware: CryptVault encrypts files, makes them look like files quarantined by an AV solution, asks for ransom and, finally, dow...

Crypto ransomware sightings and trends for Q1 2015 (Help Net Security)
2015-04-02 07:07

It seems that cybercriminals have yet to tire of creating crypto-ransomware malware. Since the start of 2015, we have spotted several variants of crypto-ransomware plague the threat landscape. In J...

FBI Pleads For Crypto Subversion in Congressional Budget Hearing (Threatpost)
2015-03-27 17:49

FBI Director James Comey pleads with Congress to create a law that would allow law enforcement access to encrypted mobile communications on Android and Apple devices.