The ACCDFISA Protection Program is a ransomware computer infection that pretends to encrypt your files using AES encryption and then locks you out of the Windows desktop. When first encountered, this ...

The 3,500 keys are now available online, though it's unclear if anyone can use them to write a decryption program. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com. Reading this during ...

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has leaked new documents to The Guardian and The New York Times that reveal expensive secret programs in the NSA and GCHQ aimed at defeating online privacy by ...

After the leak of the HDCP master keys earlier in the month, a couple of developers have constructed a software HDCP decryption program. The usefulness isn't immediately clear, however: practical HDCP ...

A malicious software program that encrypts a person’s files until a ransom is paid has a crucial error: it leaves the decryption key on the victim’s computer. Symantec analyzed a program called ...

Some victims of ransomware—malware that encrypts files and demands that the victim pay to receive the encryption key—might have been rescued by an unlikely savior this week: ransomware authors ...