Security News

25% of healthcare organizations using public cloud do not encrypt data (Help Net Security)
2017-02-20 12:45

A HyTrust survey of 51 healthcare and biotech organizations found that 25 percent of those organizations using the public cloud do not encrypt their data. The survey also found that 63 percent of...

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.