A ransomware variant favored by a pro-Russia hacktivist group is back on the scene with a new version that has a fatal flaw — it keeps artifacts that allow victims to decrypt their files. VolkLocker ...

Abstract: Transparent file encryption is an important means to protect file data security. However, for the traditional file encryption system based on file filter driver, constant cache cleaning is ...

AES-NI is a CPU instruction set that accelerates AES encryption/decryption using hardware-based processing. Provides 3x–10x performance improvement over software-only AES implementations. Enhances ...

Decrypt is partnering with Opera to distribute its news, educational content and features through Opera News, Opera Mini and Opera for Android. Opera News users will be able to discover Decrypt's ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Currently, the OpenSSL extension in PHP provides openssl_encrypt() and openssl_decrypt(), which require the entire data buffer in memory for AES-128-GCM, AES-256-GCM... This makes it impractical to ...

OpenSSL is a strong library that is necessary for doing cryptographic tasks in a wide range of programs, from secure communications to more complex systems like blockchain technology. When developers ...

A decryptor for the FunkSec ransomware has been developed and made avaliable to download for free by researchers at antivirus provider Avast. Ladislav Zezul, a malware researcher at Avast’s parent ...

With the increasing level of Information security awareness today, using encryption may not just be an option but a must for sensitive and private data. There is a lot of research being done by ...