Security News

Russian-speaking cybercriminals created over 75% of all crypto ransomware (Help Net Security)
2017-02-15 13:48

According to the Kaspersky Lab’s telemetry, in 2016 more than 1,445,000 users (including businesses) around the globe were attacked by 54 thousand modifications of 60+ families of crypto...

Exploring trends in automated crypto trading (Help Net Security)
2017-01-02 12:45

Despite the risks, many traders continue to be attracted to cryptocurrency trading due to the earning potential it offers. Sasha Ivanov, CEO of Waves, explains that the crypto market is...

Google Releases Crypto Test Suite (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-20 12:12

Google has released Project Wycheproof a test suite designed to test cryptographic libraries against a series of known attacks. From a blog post: In cryptography, subtle mistakes can have...

ENISA says crypto backdoors are a bad idea (Help Net Security)
2016-12-14 20:54

“History has shown that technology beats legislation, and criminals are best placed to capitalise on this opportunity,” the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) noted in a...

Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2016-11-09 13:45

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of its Key Agreement and...