Security Vulnerabilities in Covert CIA Websites

Back in 2018, we learned that covert system of websites that the CIA used for communications was compromised by--at least--China and Iran, and that the blunder caused a bunch of arrests, imprisonments, and executions. Were now learning that the CIA is still "using an irresponsibly secured system...

Satellite Phone Encryption Calls Can be Cracked in Fractions of a Second

Security researchers have discovered a new method to decrypt satellite phone communications encrypted with the GMR-2 cipher in "real time" -- that too in mere fractions of a second in some cases. The new attack method has been discovered by two Chinese security researchers and is based on previou...

Someone is Spying on Researchers Behind VeraCrypt Security Audit

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued itself, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people. Due to the huge popularity of VeraCrypt, security researchers from the OSTIF The Open Source Technology Improvemen...