Security News

Let's Encrypt Is Making Web Encryption Easier (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-14 12:46

That's the conclusion of a research paper: Once [costs and complexity] are eliminated, it enables big hosting providers to issue and deploy certificates for their customers in bulk, thus quickly...

Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt (Schneier on Security)
2016-11-03 11:05

Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine learning, without being taught...

Mamba Ransomware Encrypts Hard Drives Rather Than Files (Threatpost)
2016-09-20 19:29

A new ransomware strain called Mamba opts to encrypts hard drives rather than individual files and folders stored on the local disk.