As hackers become increasingly sophisticated, they are targeting our personal data and stealing it at unprecedented rates. As a result, too many of us have received notices telling us our data has ...

Update, April 27, 2025: This story, originally published April 25, has been updated with new information from security experts concerning Google alert impersonation attacks that target Gmail users and ...

CIA Director John Brennan discusses ISIS's use of information technologies. The terrorist attacks in Paris likely would have occurred even if intelligence and law enforcement agencies could have ...

Security operations platform startup Adlumin Inc. today announced a new ransomware prevention feature that immediately detects and stops ransomware from encrypting files. Called Adlumin Ransomware ...

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

Encrypted internet traffic, known as hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS), protects data as it is transferred from a web server to a browser using SSL or TLS encryption protocols. In the early ...

Good news for ransomware victims: Researchers have released a free tool on GitHub that they say can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data from some types of partially encrypted ...

Academic researchers developed a new attack called Terrapin that manipulates sequence numbers during the handshake process to break the SSH channel integrity when certain widely-used encryption modes ...

Romania’s water management authority has been hit by a serious ransomware attack that forced around 1,000 computers to be taken offline. The incident affected 10 of the country’s 11 regional offices ...

A new vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips can allow a determined attacker to access a user's data by stealing the cryptographic keys — and a fix could considerably impact encryption performance.

Attack works on older WPA systems that use the TKIP algorithm and gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain wireless routers Computer scientists in Japan say ...

Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher known for picking apart the security mechanisms built into Windows, is to demonstrate new ways for hackers to invade Windows Vista, including rootkit techniques ...