Microsoft

GigaWiper: Anatomy of a destructive backdoor assembled from multiple malware

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

PSA: macOS 28 will drop support for encrypted Mac OS Extended volumes

Apple has announced that starting with macOS 28, users will need to decrypt or reformat certain storage volumes to keep using ...
Macworld

Apple to end support for encrypted Mac OS Extended drives–here’s what it means

Apple will end support for encrypted Mac OS Extended (HFS+) drives with macOS 28 in 2027, requiring users to reformat or ...
PC Magazine

The Best Email Encryption Services for 2026

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elizebeth Smith Friedman was the U.S. Government’s First Woman Codebreaker. She Cracked Nazi Codes, Saved 8,000 Lives, and Pioneered Modern Codebreaking.

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars. Recently declassified, the full extent of her story is still coming to ...