VeraCrypt Audit Reveals Critical Security Flaws — Update Now

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued its service, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, as well as privacy conscious people. First of all, there is no such thing as a perfect, bug-free software. Even the most rigorously tested...

StrongPity APT Covets Secrets of Crypto Users

APT groups covet secrets, and one in particular has chosen to target users intent on protecting theirs. The group is known as StrongPity, and it’s been a characteristic APT outfit using its share of zero days and modular attack tools to infiltrate victims and conduct espionage. This summer,...

VeraCrypt Audit Under Way; Email Mystery Cleared Up

Update To say the VeraCrypt audit, which begins today, got off to an inauspicious start would be an understatement. On Sunday, two weeks after the announcement that the open source file and disk encryption software would be formally scrutinized for security vulnerabilities, executives at one of t...

British Hacker Wins Legal Battle Over Encryption Keys

In Brief Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil...

British Authorities Order Hacker Lauri Love to hand Over Encryption Keys

The National Crime Agency NCA of United Kingdom is forcing the British citizen, and political hacktivist Lauri Love accused of hacking to hand over encryption keys to equipment seized from his home. Love, 31, is currently fighting extradition to the United States where he faces up to 99 years in...

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt DLL File Loading Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt are both free, open source disk encryption software. TrueCrypt and VeraCrypt load DLLs contain security vulnerabilities that allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to build malicious files that can be parsed by the user and can execute arbitrary code...

TrueCrypt 7.1a / 7.2 DLL Hijacking

Hi @ll, the executable installers "TrueCrypt Setup 7.1a.exe" and TrueCrypt-7.2.exe load and execute USP10.dll, RichEd20.dll, NTMarta.dll and SRClient.dll from their "application directory". For software downloaded with a web browser the application directory is typically the user's "Downloads"...

TrueCrypt vulnerability analysis: than people think the more security-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! TrueCrypt is a is millions on security and privacy lovers the favorite data encryption tool, but recently it broke some of the vulnerabilities. However, according to well-known Information Security Technology Institute of the Fraunhofer-out of a safety analysis report, it may still have to than...

German Government Audits TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt continues to fascinate even though it hasn’t been updated in more than a year and has been cleared of backdoors in more than one extensive audit. The German government’s Federal Office for Information Security BSI is the latest to inspect and analyze the security of the abandoned open...

Windows Drivers are True’ly Tricky

Posted by James Forshaw, Driving for Bugs Auditing a product for security vulnerabilities can be a difficult challenge, and there’s no guarantee you’ll catch all vulnerabilities even when you do. This post describes an issue I identified in the Windows Driver code for Truecrypt, which has already...

TrueCrypt Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

TrueCrypt is a free and open source encryption software. A security vulnerability exists in the TrueCrypt installation driver for Windows systems. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges...

TrueCrypt Local Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CNVD-2015-06540)

TrueCrypt is a free and open source encryption software. A security vulnerability exists in the TrueCrypt installation driver for Windows systems. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to elevate privileges...

TrueCrypt 7 / VeraCrypt 1.13 - Drive Letter Symbolic Link Creation Privilege Escalation

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=538 Truecrypt 7 Derived Code/Windows: Drive Letter Symbolic Link Creation EoP Platform: Windows Class: Local Elevation of Privilege Tested on: VeraCrypt 1.13 x86 on Windows 10 Summary: The Windows driver used by projects...

Truecrypt 7 / VeraCrypt 1.13 - Drive Letter Symbolic Link Creation Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=538 Truecrypt 7 Derived Code/Windows: Drive Letter Symbolic Link Creation EoP Platform: Windows Class: Local Elevation of Privilege Tested on: VeraCrypt 1.13 x86 on...

TrueCrypt Encryption Software Has Two Critical Flaws: It's time to Move On

If you are among thousands of privacy-conscious people who are still using ‘no longer available’ TrueCrypt Encryption Software, then you need to pay attention. Two critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous encryption tool, TrueCrypt, that could expose the user’s da...

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...

Encryption Software VeraCrypt 1.12 Adds New PIM Feature To Boost Password Security

Encrypting your sensitive data is important. As you may know, CIA... Confidentiality Integrity Availability ...are the essential elements of Information Security. There are a number of tools and methods available out there, but not all encryption tools are same. We are now living in an era where...

Not found the rear door: open source encryption software TrueCrypt security audit-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

TrueCrypt is a popular open source file encryption software, which the user includes a large number of“sensitive persons”, such as businessmen, politicians, journalists, and therefore its safety has been well received by the attention. 2 0 1 4 年 5 months, the open source encryption software...

TrueCrypt alternatives VeraCrypt CipherShed Step Up

TrueCrypt’s relative clean bill of health last week has now spawned a new focus on existing alternatives to the open source encryption software, namely VeraCrypt and CipherShed. Both open source projects sprung forth from the rubble of the original TrueCrypt developers’ decision in 2014 to abando...

TrueCrypt Security Audit Concludes No NSA Backdoor

The Security audit of TrueCrypt disk-encryption software has been completed, with no evidence of any critical design vulnerabilities or deliberate backdoors in its code. TrueCrypt -- one of the world's most-used open source file encryption software used by Millions of privacy and security...