Neowin News Feed for: Decryption

Microsoft posts official BitLocker key recovery and back up guide for Windows 11/10 PCs

Sayan Sen — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 15:30:01 +0000

Microsoft has added new BitLocker encryption guides on its official website. These are meant to explain to users what BitLocker does and how to recover and/or back up the necessary BitLocker keys. Read more...

ProtonMail Bridge update brings new Status View, localized encrypted mail, and more

Alap Naik Desai — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:24:01 +0000

An update for the ProtonMail Bridge app offers to encrypt and decrypt emails that are stored locally for much quicker access. There's a new Status View and stability improvements as well. Read more...

Intel and Microsoft to help DARPA encryption project

Paul Hill — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:48:01 +0000

Microsoft and Intel will help DARPA develop technology that allows computations to be performed on encrypted data. It's too intensive to do this today but DARPA hopes to crack the problem. Read more...

Criminals arrested after police crack encrypted messages

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:44:01 +0000

The National Crime Agency and international agencies have punched holes in UK criminal networks after an encrypted messenger app, EncroChat, was decrypted. Over 700 arrests have been made in the UK. Read more...

Australia wants tech firms to decrypt messages

Paul Hill — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:20:01 +0000

Australia is trying to introduce a new surveillance law that could be passed before November. It will require tech firms to decrypt encrypted messages and is based on the UK's Snooper's Charter. Read more...

Security firm manages to recover encrypted data affected by latest Petya attack

Paul Hill — Sat, 08 Jul 2017 01:10:02 +0000

Researchers from Positive Technologies have found a way to decrypt files affected by the NotPetya ransomware that struck at the end of June. Currently, the solution is too technical for most people. Read more...

WannaCry decryption tools released, but it's not good news for everyone

Florin Bodnarescu — Fri, 19 May 2017 23:58:01 +0000

A flaw in the way WannaCry operates has allowed a couple of researchers to create decryptors for those affected by the ransomware. That said, these solutions only work for some versions of Windows. Read more...

The UK wants ISPs to store all of their traffic data

Tyler Holman — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:16:57 +0000

What if every website you loaded, movie you streamed, song you pirated, and email you sent was decrypted and stored for a year by your ISP? Scary? It's exactly what the UK is hoping to do. Read more...

GSM encryption cracked, code available on BitTorrent

Benjamin Rubenstein — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:32:20 +0000

It was recently reported that a German computer engineer outlined his plans to to crack GSM encryption and make his results public. Well now, he's actually done it. The New York Times is reporting that... Read more...