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TrueCrypt Is Not Secure, Developers Warn

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May

2014

TrueCrypt is not safe to use since it might contain unfixed security issues, warns a message apparently coming from the developers of the encryption software. In October 2013, following rumors of the NSA’s attempts to undermine encryption software, Kenneth White, principal scientist at BAO Systems, and Matthew Green, cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins […]

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First Heartbleed-Based Cyberattacks Discovered

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Apr

2014

The two cases appear to be unrelated, but in both instances snoops seemingly used the now-infamous flaw in OpenSSL, an online encryption software, to access the sites databases. In at least one of the breaches the hackers stole hundreds of users personal information. When the Heartbleed bug was exposed last week (Apr. 8) the Canada […]

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Experts Find 11 Issues in TrueCrypt, but No Backdoors or Malicious Code

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Apr

2014

In October 2013, some experts announced their intention to audit TrueCrypt, the open source file and disk encryption software, to see if it was really secure. The first phase of the audit has been completed and the results are in. According to the report from iSEC Partners, the company in charge of reviewing the software, […]

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