The “Harvest Now, Decrypt Later” hacking strategy relies on the belief that the world is only a few years away from ...

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

CVE-2026-1357 exposes a critical WordPress WPvivid plugin flaw, allowing unauthenticated RCE, enabling attackers to upload PHP files and fully compromise sites. The post CVE-2026-1357: WordPress ...

Among 82 CDC databases updated at least monthly as of early 2025, 46% had unexplained pauses by late October 2025. While none of the 44 databases that continued to be updated through late October ...

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In context: Tech companies promote device encryption to reassure customers that their data remains private. Some, such as Apple, have resisted requests from authorities to bypass encryption. However, ...

Microsoft handed over keys to BitLocker-encrypted data stored on its servers during an FBI probe last year, granting access to data on three separate laptops. BitLocker, a built-in data protection ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it provided BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI in response to a valid legal order, giving investigators the ability to decrypt hard drives that would otherwise have been ...

Microsoft provided the FBI with the recovery keys to unlock encrypted data on the hard drives of three laptops as part of a federal investigation, Forbes reported on Friday. Many modern Windows ...

“Shut it down! Shut it all down! And pay them what they are asking!” It was 5:55 AM on May 7, 2021, in Alpharetta, Georgia. Minutes earlier, an employee of The Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) ...

A team of researchers at the University of Waterloo have made a breakthrough in quantum computing that elegantly bypasses the fundamental "no cloning" problem. The research, "Encrypted Qubits can be ...

A full-stack web application designed to securely manage user profiles with sensitive identity information. The system implements industry-standard security practices including JWT-based ...