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Enigma, Typex, and Bombe Simulators
2019-03-22 11:16

GCHQ has put simulators for the Enigma, Typex, and Bombe on the Internet. News article....

UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try
2019-03-18 06:19

You have to run GCHQ code? Nice try, spy guys UK signals intelligence agency GCHQ, celebrating its centenary, has released emulators for famed World War II-era cipher machines that can be run...

Three-Rotor Enigma Machine Up for Auction Today
2018-11-30 14:07

Sotheby's is auctioning off a (working, I think) three-rotor Enigma machine today. They're expecting it to sell for about $200K. I have an Enigma, but it's without the rotors....

WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until long after the war
2018-09-25 10:04

92-year-old Wren tells us about life cracking German codes Interview El Reg had the honour of speaking with a war hero last Friday when the UK's National Museum of Computing fired up its replica...

Enigma message crack honours pioneering Polish codebreakers
2018-09-21 14:58

Plus: The Reg chats to wartime Bombe operator Ruth Bourne The Bombe team at The National Museum Of Computing has succeeded in breaking an Enigma-encrypted message in a live Poland-to-England demo.…

National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe
2018-09-19 14:58

Turing-Welchman machine to do its thing – with original wartime operator present The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is going to fire up its replica Enigma code-breaker to decrypt encoded...

Cryptography is the Bombe: Britain's Enigma-cracker on display in new home
2018-06-19 12:24

Replica war-winner now in Bletchley Park's historic Block H The UK National Museum of Computing will open its new Bombe gallery this weekend at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes after a successful...

Malwarebytes Scores Legal Win Over Enigma Software
2017-11-11 15:38

Enigma Software, supplier of software known as SpyHunter, has a notice on its website: "Malwarebytes Inc., the maker of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware ("MBAM") and AdwCleaner, is intentionally blocking...

Hackers stole over $500,000 from Enigma cryptocurrency investors (Help Net Security)
2017-08-22 15:42

Unknown hackers have managed to steal over $500,000 from aspiring investors in the Enigma cryptocurrency investment platform. The Enigma cryptocurrency hack The attack unfolded on Monday (August...

Warning: Enigma Hacked; Over $470,000 in Ethereum Stolen So Far (The Hackers News)
2017-08-21 02:52

More Ethereum Stolen! An unknown hacker has so far stolen more than $471,000 worth of Ethereum—one of the most popular and increasingly valuable cryptocurrencies—in yet another Ethereum hack that...