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 ...
techtimes

First AI-Agent Ransomware Destroyed Data Even Payment Could Not Recover

a laptop screen with a webpage of the IT Army of Ukraine group of volunteer hackers. The IT Army of Ukraine first set up in the wake of Russia's devastating attack, and has since hugely grown in ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tech Times

EU Finalizes GDPR Blockchain Rules: Encrypted Data Is Still Personal Data

GDPR blockchain compliance is definitively settled: the European Data Protection Board finalized its blockchain guidelines on ...
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 ...

Nearly 300 GitHub repos pose as legit software to push malware

A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to ...

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to ...
Developer Tech

Socket: PyPI and npm payment SDK malware compromises CI/CD

According to Socket, malicious payment SDK packages on npm and PyPI are harvesting developer credentials and CI/CD ...
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 ...
SecurityWeek

Network of 200 GitHub Repositories Used for Malware Infection

In Operation Muck and Load, over 200 GitHub repositories serve a Go module that leads to Windows malware infections.