Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last month, the company announced that threat actors had accessed “certain elements” of customer info. Just as ...

Security software company Avast has released a free decryptor for the BianLian ransomware strain to help victims of the malware recover locked files without paying the hackers. The availability of a ...

Czech cybersecurity software firm Avast has released a decryption utility to help TargetCompany ransomware victims recover their files for free. However, as Avast warns, this decryptor can only be ...

Between the binary code on a laptop monitor you can see the text "Hacked". (posed photo) Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB (Photo by Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images) After a major ...

Regular readers know my longstanding interest in the correct Fifth Amendment standard for compelling a suspect to decrypt an encrypted device. The Eleventh Circuit adopted one standard in 2012, but I ...

A Colorado woman, recently ordered by a judge to turn over her password to decrypt her hard drive, may not remember what that password is. Last month, a federal judge ruled that Ramona Fricosu had ...

You may have the right to remain silent, but if the ruling of a federal judge in a recent Colorado case is anything to go by, your computer doesn’t get any such protection — even if the hard drive is ...

Unless you encrypt your files, outsiders can easily gain access to them–even without knowing your Windows password–by booting into their own operating system from a special disc or from a bootable USB ...