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Government Can Force Technology Companies to Break EncryptionAustralia's Parliament has passed new laws enabling it to compel technology companies to break their own encryption. Although the...
Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law...
Dr Shifro pays ransom, gets discount and adds its own margin, says Check Point A ransomware decryption service has turned out to be – quelle surprise – a Belarusian middleman who simply pays the...
Mark Dreyfus offers to rubber-stamp legislation if only counter-terror agencies get decryption Mark Dreyfus, the Labor opposition's shadow Attorney General, has offered a compromise on Australia's...
After security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the encryption mechanism of several types of solid-state drives (SSDs), Microsoft decided to explain how one can enforce software...
The encryption mechanism used by several types of solid state drives contains vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to access encrypted data without knowing a password. read more
Firmware updates won't address the problem, so admins need to take other action.
Difficult-to-implement encryption schemes in self-encrypting drives are likely handled incorrectly, leading to a false sense of security.
Researchers have discovered security holes in the hardware encryption implementation of several solid state disks (SSDs) manufactured by Crucial (owned by Micron) and Samsung, which could allow...
Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives (SSDs)": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by...