Security News

'Unhackable' Bitfi crypto-currency wallet maker will be shocked to find fingernails exist
2018-08-01 22:25

Backed by John McAfee so you know it's going to be A+ Pics A crypto-currency wallet heavily promoted as "unhackable" – complete with endorsements from the security industry's loopy old uncle John...

Stealthy Crypto-Miner Has Worm-Like Spreading Mechanism
2018-07-30 14:53

The PowerGhost crypto-miner is capable of remaining undetected on infected systems, and can spread on its own by leveraging a fileless infection technique, Kaspersky Lab has discovered. read more

FBI boss: We went to the moon, why can't we have crypto backdoors? – and more this week
2018-07-28 08:22

The good, the bad, and the ugly from infosec Roundup There has been a bumper crop of security news this week, including another shipping company getting taken down by ransomware, Russian hackers...

Font of pwnage: Crims poison well with crypto-jacking code, trickles into PDF editor app
2018-07-27 16:20

Hackers clone supplier's cloud servers to push tainted MSI files Crooks mounted a crypto-mining scam after hacking into a supplier of an unnamed PDF editor software vendor.…

Declassified files reveal how pre-WW2 Brits smashed Russian crypto
2018-07-19 18:35

Moscow's agents used one-time pads, er, two times – ой! Efforts by British boffins to thwart Russian cryptographic cyphers in the 1920s and 1930s have been declassified, providing fascinating...

Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Exchanges: A Haven for Money Laundering
2018-07-17 21:04

Buyers and sellers can exchange cash in person, transfer bank funds online or can exchange funds for prepaid cards, gift cards or other cryptocurrencies.

Newsmaker Interview: Bruce Schneier on ‘Going Dark’ and the Crypto Arms Race
2018-07-16 17:38

Noted cryptographer waxes on the threats posed by physical cyber systems, 'going dark' and a crypto arms race.

CipherTrace Unveils Crypto-Currency Anti-Money Laundering Solution
2018-07-05 15:48

Cryptocurrency theft and its use to launder other illegal activity is booming. This has prompted the evolution of a related industry that sits on the borderline of legality (barely legal in some...

Things that make you go hmmm: Do crypto key servers violate GDPR?
2018-07-05 08:13

One does not simply 'remove' data from key servers Cryptographic key servers are in "direct violation" of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, a software developer has claimed.…

Huawei enterprise comms kit has a TLS crypto bug
2018-07-04 06:01

You don't want insecure kit from a vendor the Pentagon hates, do you? Huawei has rolled patches to various enterprise and broadcast products to fix a cryptography bug.…