Popular Encryption Software TrueCrypt Shuts Down Mysteriously

TrueCrypt, the popular and reputed open source file and disk encryption Software for Windows, OSX and Linux, has abruptly closed down Wednesday recommending its users to use Microsoft's Bitlocker. TrueCrypt is a free, open-source and cross-platform encryption program, thereby one of the world's...

TrueCrypt Warns Software 'Not Secure,' Development Shut Down

Is it a hoax, or the end of the line for TrueCrypt? At the moment, there is little more than speculation as to the appearance today of an ominous note greeting visitors to the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge. The text warns that the open source encryption software is not secure and informs users th...

oclHashcat v1.20 - Worlds fastest password cracker

oclHashcat is a GPGPU-based multi-hash cracker using a brute-force attack implemented as mask attack, combinator attack, dictionary attack, hybrid attack, mask attack, and rule-based attack. This GPU cracker is a fusioned version of oclHashcat-plus and oclHashcat-lite. GPU Driver requirements: NV...

Cryptanalysis Remains for TrueCrypt Audit

Phase two of the TrueCrypt audit figures to be a labor-intensive, largely manual cryptanalysis, according to the two experts behind the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP. Matthew Green, crypto expert and professor at Johns Hopkins University, said a small team of experts will have to, by hand, exami...

TrueCrypt is Secure; Encryption Tool cleared the First Phase of Security Audit

Is TrueCrypt Audited Yet? Yes, In Part! One of the world's most-used open source file encryption software trusted by tens of millions of users - TrueCrypt is being audited by a team of experts to assess if it could be easily exploited and cracked. Hopefully it has cleared the first phase of the...

First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors

A initial audit of the popular open source encryption software TrueCrypt turned up fewer than a dozen vulnerabilities, none of which so far point toward a backdoor surreptitiously inserted into the codebase. A report on the first phase of the audit was released today by iSEC Partners, which was...

Passive Security Community Turned Activist

Security people like to call themselves a community, but until June some might say its greatest community achievement is turning Twitter into its own private and contentious echo chamber. But since the Snowden leaks, there’s been a palpable change and a marked swell in stand-taking. Tweeters have...

TrueCrypt Audit Team Creates Technical Advisory Board

As the TrueCrypt audit chugs along toward a deterministic, clean build of the open-source encryption software and a palatable license, the organizers have brought prominent security and legal experts aboard as a technical advisory team. The experts will not only provide guidance on the current...

TrueCrypt Open Source License Audit Bringing Clarity

The list of objectors to the TrueCrypt open source license is a long one and includes some popular distributions such as Debian, Fedora—and by extension Red Hat. In fact, the wrangling over the TrueCrypt license dates back as far as 2006, long before there were serious inquiries as to the...

TrueCrypt Audit Endorsed by Development Team

UPDATE — The effort to audit TrueCrypt, the open source encryption tool, received an important endorsement in the last week when a member of its anonymous development team reached out to the organizers of IsTrueCryptAuditedYet? “He wrote us a friendly but formal letter stating that they were happ...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Truecrypt, iMessage Security and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the grassroots effort to audit the TrueCrypt source code, the Apple iMessage security model and Yahoo enabling SSL by default. Download: digitalunderground129.mp3...

TrueCrypt Audit to Answer Backdoor Question

The grassroots movement to audit TrueCrypt, the popular open source encryption tool, is gaining steam with tens of thousands of dollars already raised to fund the effort to not only professionally review the source code behind the tool, but also to legally review the custom license governing its...

[TCHead] TrueCrypt Password Cracking Tool

TCHead is software that decrypts and verifies TrueCrypt headers. TCHead supports all the current hashes, individual ciphers, standard volume headers, hidden volume headers and system drive encrypted headers preboot authentication. Brute-force TrueCrypt : However, TrueCrypt passwords go through ma...

EncFS and TrueCrypt for Android: Cryptonite

Cryptonite brings EncFS and TrueCrypt to Android. You can browse, export and open EncFS-encrypted directories and files on your Dropbox and on your phone. On rooted phones that support FUSE e.g. CyanogenMod you can also mount EncFS and TrueCrypt volumes. TrueCrypt is only available as a...

Anonymous Hacks, Leaks E-mails, Voicemails of California Special Agent

Calling it a form of “electronic civil disobedience,” hacktivist group Anonymous took aim at a special agent from the California Department of Justice on Friday. The group spilled 38,000 e-mails containing “computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing...

Fedora Update for pam_mount FEDORA-2010-12950

Check for the Version of pammount OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for pammount FEDORA-2010-12950 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

How to Defeat Full-Disk Encryption in One Minute

Full-disk encryption is often heralded as a panacea to the huge problems of data breaches and laptop thefts, and with good reason. Making the data on a laptop or other device unreadable makes the machine far less attractive or valuable to a thief. However, researchers are showing that this soluti...

CVE-2008-3899

TrueCrypt 5.0 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer. NOTE: the researcher mentions a...

Design/Logic Flaw

TrueCrypt 5.0 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer. NOTE: the researcher mentions a...

CVE-2008-3899

TrueCrypt 5.0 stores pre-boot authentication passwords in the BIOS Keyboard buffer and does not clear this buffer before and after use, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the physical memory locations associated with this buffer. NOTE: the researcher mentions a...