Known-plaintext attacks, explained

A known-plaintext attack (KPA) occurs when a hacker uses pairs of both encrypted and unencrypted data to figure out the ...
Scientific American

A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after 35 Years

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth ...
Threat Post

TheMoon Rises Again, With a Botnet-as-a-Service Threat

A new module allows it to be rented to other malicious actors — and it’s likely other new capabilities are coming down the pike. TheMoon, an IoT botnet targeting home routers and modems, is entering a ...
Ars Technica

Meta pays the price for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext

Officials in Ireland have fined Meta $101 million for storing hundreds of millions of user passwords in plaintext and making them broadly available to company employees. Meta disclosed the lapse in ...
CSOonline

EFAIL: Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs could reveal plaintext of encrypted emails

There's currently no fix for the critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME. Users are advised to disable PGP plug-ins and not to use decryption in email clients. EFAIL … it ...