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 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 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...

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...