Tag: PGP
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Malware peddlers experimenting with BPL sideloading and masking malicious payloads as PGP keys
A newly spotted campaign is leveraging BPL sideloading and other uncommon tricks to deliver the IDAT Loader (aka HijackLoader) malware and …
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Powerful GPG collision attack spells the end for SHA-1
New research has heightened an already urgent call to abandon SHA-1, a cryptographic algorithm still used in many popular online services. …
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OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared ‘poisoning’ attack
Somebody out there has taken a big dislike to Robert J. Hansen (‘rjh’) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor (‘dkg’), two well-regarded experts …
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PGP SKS key network poisoned by unknown hackers
Two high-profile PGP project contributors have faced attacks conducted by unknown threat actors which have been able to poison certificates …
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Top 5 Best Open Source Security Projects That Promote Online Privacy & Protect Your Identity
In general, the most secure software is open source. Even old, underfunded open source security projects can still withstand the onslaught …
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ProtonMail now supports PGP encryption with other clients
ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail …
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ProtonMail adds full PGP support and address verification
ProtonMail, the Switzerland-based encrypted email and VPN provider, has introduced full support for PGP. ProtonMail’s cryptography is …
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PGP encryption won’t protect your data. But PURBs can.
You may think that encrypting your sensitive files with, say, PGP may protect your data – but you’d be wrong. Most encryption formats leak a lot of plaintext metadata, and that’s a problem. Here’s what you need to know. …
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Decades-old PGP bug allowed hackers to spoof just about anyone’s signature
For their entire existence, some of the world’s most widely used email encryption tools have been vulnerable to hacks that allowed …
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PGP Founder: Don’t Disable Encryption Service
The man credited with inventing PGP has teamed up with other key developers to assure users that the popular encryption program is not …
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Zimmerman and friends: ‘Are you listening? PGP is not broken’
ProtonMail has weighed into 2018’s worst branded-bug PR disaster, EFAIL with a simple statement: “PGP is not …
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