Last week I wrote about the suspicious and abrupt announcement that TrueCrypt, a popular free open source encryption solution, was being abandoned and is considered “harmful and no longer secure”. In ...

Windows users who rely on TrueCrypt to encrypt their hard drives have a serious security problem: a researcher has discovered two critical flaws in the program. TrueCrypt may have been abandoned by ...

A movement to audit TrueCrypt has raised more than $50,000 and been endorsed by a member of the anonymous TrueCrypt development team. A separate audit of the software, meanwhile, gives it a clean bill ...

CipherShed and VeraCrypt developers stand ready to step in for TrueCrypt now that the cryptanalysis phase of the audit is complete and no backdoors were discovered. Both open source projects sprung ...

One of the official webpages for the widely used TrueCrypt encryption program says that development has abruptly ended and warns users of the decade-old tool that it isn’t safe to use. “WARNING: Using ...

The TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts is safer than some studies have suggested, according to a comprehensive security analysis conducted by the ...

Message from TrueCrypt that it’s being discontinued on SourceForge.net. The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many ...

TrueCrypt, one of our favorite file encryption tools, has abruptly changed its homepage to a warning that the tool may not secure, and a detailed guide on how to migrate your encrypted data to ...

Encryption is a silent, unsung hero of our modern connected society. From protecting your sensitive details when you log on to Internet banking to protecting data on your laptop or mobile phone if it ...

It may rank up there with the greatest mysteries of history: What is Stonehenge? Who was Jack the Ripper? What happened to TrueCrypt? TrueCrypt (is? was?) an open-source software project for file and ...

Last Wednesday the SourceForge page for popular open-source disk encryption software TrueCrypt started recommending the use of BitLocker on Windows instead. Visitors were told that the application was ...

The first round of results are in, and so far TrueCrypt, the popular open-source encryption program, has a relatively clean bill of health. Security firm iSec Partners recently carried out the first ...