One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an ...

The Avaddon ransomware gang has fixed a bug that let victims recover their files without paying the ransom. The flaw came to light after a security researcher exploited it to create a decryptor. On ...

Federal prosecutors are urging a federal judge to demand a Wisconsin man immediately decrypt several hard drives they believe contain child pornography. The authorities have been litigating the ...

The cybercrime group behind the FonixCrypter ransomware has announced today on Twitter that they've deleted the ransomware's source code and plan to shut down their operation. As a gesture of goodwill ...

Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

LAS VEGAS — There are plenty of reasons that a company might want to try and decrypt SSL sessions — to stop outbound malware botnet connections that are decrypted, or to stop a rogue insider from ...

A free decryption tool for a form of ransomware that has plaguing victims since 2017 has just been updated with additional capabilities to make it more effective at returning encrypted files – without ...

A Dutch draft law that aims to introduce a decryption order that forces suspects to decrypt data on their computers could violate the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), said the Dutch Council ...

The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had ...