Last week I wrote about the suspicious and abrupt announcement that TrueCrypt, a popular free open source encryption solution, was being abandoned and is considered “harmful and no longer secure”. In ...

Windows users who rely on TrueCrypt to encrypt their hard drives have a serious security problem: a researcher has discovered two critical flaws in the program. TrueCrypt may have been abandoned by ...

CipherShed and VeraCrypt developers stand ready to step in for TrueCrypt now that the cryptanalysis phase of the audit is complete and no backdoors were discovered. Both open source projects sprung ...

Encryption is a silent, unsung hero of our modern connected society. From protecting your sensitive details when you log on to Internet banking to protecting data on your laptop or mobile phone if it ...

TrueCrypt, one of our favorite file encryption tools, has abruptly changed its homepage to a warning that the tool may not secure, and a detailed guide on how to migrate your encrypted data to ...

The TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool used by millions of privacy and security enthusiasts is safer than some studies have suggested, according to a comprehensive security analysis conducted by the ...

On Tuesday, the Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi published the latest in a series of blockbuster stories about the inner workings of the Islamic State. The piece focussed on the logistics of the ...

Theory: Borrowing a page from the Lavabit crypto service that former NSA contractor Edward Snowden used, Wednesday’s advisory was what legal practitioners call a “canary,” intended to signal receipt ...

Auditors performing a cryptanalysis of TrueCrypt found four vulnerabilities, but zero backdoors in the popular open source encryption software. The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the ...

Message from TrueCrypt that it’s being discontinued on SourceForge.net. The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many ...

It may rank up there with the greatest mysteries of history: What is Stonehenge? Who was Jack the Ripper? What happened to TrueCrypt? TrueCrypt (is? was?) an open-source software project for file and ...

The first round of results are in, and so far TrueCrypt, the popular open-source encryption program, has a relatively clean bill of health. Security firm iSec Partners recently carried out the first ...