Security News

Crypto e-mail provider ProtonMail pays ransom to stop DDoS attack, attack continues (Help Net Security)
2015-11-06 08:41

Switzerland-based end-to-end encrypted e-mail provider ProtonMail has been on the receiving end of a heavy DDoS attack since Tuesday, November 3, and unavailable to its users for hours on end. Pro...

Crypto-ransomware encrypts files "offline" (Help Net Security)
2015-11-05 10:17

Ransomware comes in various forms, and not all ransomware encrypts files - some just block computers until the ransom is paid. When the file encryption feature is included, the encryption key is usual...

Chimera crypto-ransomware is hitting German companies (Help Net Security)
2015-11-03 07:59

A new piece of crypto-ransomware is targeting German companies: it's called Chimera, and the criminals behind the scheme are threatening to release sensitive corporate data on the Internet if the targ...

NSA’s Divorce from ECC Causing Crypto Hand-Wringing (Threatpost)
2015-10-23 19:55

The NSA is moving away from Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and cryptographers aren't buying their reasoning that advances in post quantum computing put ECC in jeopardy.