Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

Researchers have discovered a Linux variant of the KillDisk ransomware, which itself is a new addition to the KillDisk disk wiper malware family, previously used only to sabotage companies by randomly ...

Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. For them, it was an ethical issue. Eric said: We believe encryption is ...

Title was also updated to reflect that the flaw allows bypassing disk encryption authentication procedures, not the actual encryption. Encrypted data is safe, but attackers can get root privileges on ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Passware, Inc., a provider of password recovery, decryption, and electronic evidence discovery ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zettaset, a leading provider of data protection solutions, today announced an expanded collaboration with Red Hat to bring its next generation XCrypt Full Disk ...

One of the standards that has become normal in the US federal sector is the requirement that all mobile devices, such as laptops, have encrypted drives. This was a direct result of a number of laptop ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Security software company Pointsec has released a full-disk end-user software encryption product for ...

Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. In a ...