TrueCrypt Security Vulnerabilities Patched in VeraCrypt

TrueCrypt may be a fond memory for most of its users, but that hasn’t stopped researchers and hackers from poking about the open source encryption software. Recently, researchers from Google’s Project Zero team uncovered a pair of elevation of privilege vulnerabilities in TrueCrypt, both of which...

Of TrueCrypt and the Warrant Canary

Apple’s first transparency report, released last November, was one in a string of many released following the start of the Snowden leaks by technology companies trying to distance themselves from the tentacles of NSA surveillance. Apple’s report, however, contained two sentences that made it stan...