TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Finds No Backdoors

The results are in from the cryptanalysis phase of the TrueCrypt audit, and they show—nothing. Well, maybe not “nothing,” but certainly no signs of a deliberate backdoor from the NSA or any government entity, fears of which date back to the autumn of 2013, post-Snowden, and ignited talk to have t...

TrueCrypt Audit Cryptanalysis Handed Off to NCC Group

The stagnant TrueCrypt audit stirred to life in the last 24 hours with the announcement that the second phase of the audit, tasked with examining the cryptography behind the open source disk encryption software, will begin shortly. NCC Group’s Cryptography Services has been contracted to do the...

AT&T Drops Controversial Tracking Header

When information came out earlier this month that some mobile carriers were injecting unique identifying “supercookies” into their users’ Web traffic, privacy groups and users were angered. The practice, used by Verizon and AT&T, enables advertisers to track users’ behavior and assemble informati...

Tails 1.2 - Privacy for anyone anywhere

Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity , and helps you to: use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship ; all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the...

CipherShed - Secure Encryption Software (fork of the TrueCrypt Project)

CipherShed is free as in free-of-charge and free-speech encryption software for keeping your data secure and private. It started as a fork of the now-discontinued TrueCrypt Project. CipherShed is a program that can be used to create encrypted files or encrypt entire drives including USB flash...

HackBack - A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers

HackBack - A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers. Papers exploit for Multiple platform | | | | | | | | | | | | || |/ |/ | |/ / | \ / |/ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | || || ||,|||\ |/ ,|||\ A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers --...

Multiple Vendor BIOS Keyboard Buffer Password Persistence Weakness (1)

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15751/info Multiple vendors fail to clear the BIOS Basic Input-Output System keyboard buffer after reading the preboot authentication password during the system startup process. Depending on the operating system running o...

TrueCrypt 4.3 - Privilege Escalation Exploit

No description provided by source. $Id: raptortruecrypt,v 1.1.1.1 2007/04/04 11:31:56 raptor Exp $ raptortruecrypt - setuid truecrypt privilege escalation Copyright c 2007 Marco Ivaldi [email protected] TrueCrypt 4.3, when installed setuid root, allows local users to cause a denial of servic...

Crowdsourcing a Tool for Application Vulnerability Research

Pulling in security help on a project has traditionally meant either hiring more full-time help, or bringing in an outside consultant. Enterprises and vendors alike, however, are starting to really go outside the perimeter these days and are taking advantage of crowdsourcing. Given the paranoia i...

Threatpost News Wrap, June 23, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the latest security news, including the possible fork of TrueCrypt, Microsoft’s new information sharing platform, the FBI’s cybercrime task force and the US team’s crushing tie with Portugal. Download: digitalunderground156.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Possible TrueCrypt Fork in the Works

Although the developers behind the TrueCrypt encryption software have given up the ghost and decided to no longer maintain the application, interest in the project has never been higher. But, one of the developers says that a nascent effort to fork TrueCrypt is unlikely to succeed. Matthew Green,...

Audit Project Released Verified Repositories of TrueCrypt 7.1a

As the uncertainty surrounding the end of TrueCrypt continues, members of the security community are working to preserve a known-good archive of the last version of the open source encryption software released before the developers inserted a warning about potential unfixed bugs in the software a...

Crowdsourcing to be Part of Phase Two of TrueCrypt Audit

TrueCrypt may yet get forked, but it won’t come at the hands of the Open Crypto Audit Project OCAP, which has a working plan to move forward with a cryptanalysis of the open source encryption software. OCAP is the brand name for the grassroots movement that arose out of the ashes of the Snowden...

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...

OpenSSL Receives Funding for Developers, Will Undergo Security Audit

Scarcely a month after announcing the formation of a group designed to help fund open source projects, the Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two full-time developers and also will fund an audit of OpenSSL by the Open Crypto Audit...

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...