The 3,500 keys are now available online, though it's unclear if anyone can use them to write a decryption program. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during ...

The ACCDFISA Protection Program is a ransomware computer infection that pretends to encrypt your files using AES encryption and then locks you out of the Windows desktop. When first encountered, this ...

Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all ...

One of the worst types of malicious software that computer users worldwide are plagued with is ransomware. This type of malware encrypts the contents of the user's computer in an attempt to force the ...

REvil ransomware affected many users around the world, especially when it struck Kaseya over the past months. The common modus of the gang behind the REvil attack is to make the victim pay the ransom ...

Just a few weeks after the leak of the HDCP master keys was confirmed, a software implementation of the encryption scheme has been developed. The software implementation should be able to decrypt a ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Using the Internet to publish a code for decrypting and copying digital movies is protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled. The court found Thursday that Andrew ...

Some victims of ransomware—malware that encrypts files and demands that the victim pay to receive the encryption key—might have been rescued by an unlikely savior this week: ransomware authors ...

After the leak of the HDCP master keys earlier in the month, a couple of developers have constructed a software HDCP decryption program. The usefulness isn't immediately clear, however: practical HDCP ...