On Tuesday, the Times reporter Rukmini Callimachi published the latest in a series of blockbuster stories about the inner workings of the Islamic State. The piece focussed on the logistics of the ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the official website for the TrueCrypt encryption software -- which allows users to encrypt hard drives and sensitive files -- was updated to say that it is no longer safe to ...

Researchers are calling for a full audit of extremely popular opensource encrpytion solution TrueCrypt. This effort begins at IsTrueCryptAuditedYet.com–that includes seeking funds for the project–but ...

A post on the TrueCrypt page at SourceForge warns that open source encryption software TrueCrypt is not secure and development has shut down. Is it a hoax, or the end of the line for TrueCrypt? At the ...

After nearly a year of drama, the widely-used encryption software TrueCrypt has come out from its security audit with a mostly clean bill of health. TrueCrypt has long been a popular way to encrypt ...

Not long after news spread that TrueCrypt was shutting down, enough theories were circulating about what happened to fill an episode of the TV show 24. To recap: The developers of the TrueCrypt ...

Is TrueCrypt audited yet? Nope, but it will be soon. One of the world’s most-used file encryption tools is about to get a full exam that will hopefully give the software a clean bill of health, after ...

An illustration picture shows a projection of binary code on a man holding a laptop computer in an office in Warsaw, June 24, 2013. Reuters/Kacper Pempel The abrupt discontinuation of the popular open ...

The initial phase of the TrueCrypt audit has been released and 11 vulnerabilities were uncovered, but no evidence of a backdoor. A initial audit of the popular open source encryption software ...

TrueCrypt remains the only option for securely importing and exporting data to and from the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) two weeks after the popular encryption software was abruptly discontinued ...

A unique effort to crowdsource a security audit of the popular TrueCrypt open source encryption software appears to be going viral three weeks after it was launched by two U.S. based researchers in ...

Edward Snowden saw the power of TrueCrypt. Before he became famous for leaking NSA documents to the press, he spent an afternoon in Hawaii teaching people how they could use the encryption software to ...