Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...
Security Boulevard

CVE-2026-1357: WordPress Plugin RCE Exposes Sites to Full Takeover

CVE-2026-1357 exposes a critical WordPress WPvivid plugin flaw, allowing unauthenticated RCE, enabling attackers to upload PHP files and fully compromise sites. The post CVE-2026-1357: WordPress ...
TWCN Tech News

You don’t have sufficient permissions to open the Mail encrypted in Outlook

You may see this error because the Microsoft 365 encryption service cannot verify your identity or check if you have permission to view the message. This is not ...
decrypt

Bitcoin Q-Day on the Horizon? New IBM Quantum Chip Expected to Hit Another Milestone

IBM introduced Nighthawk and Loon quantum processors on Wednesday. Nighthawk’s 120 qubits and 218 couplers support circuits up to 5,000 two-qubit gates. IBM aims for community-verified quantum ...
CoinTelegraph

‘We should migrate now’ to post-quantum encryption, researcher says

Gianluca Di Bella claimed quantum computing already makes encryption and ZK-proofs vulnerable due to “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Gianluca Di Bella, a smart-contract researcher specializing in ...
GitHub

Add streaming encryption/decryption API to OpenSSL extension (openssl_encrypt_init / openssl_encrypt_update / openssl_encrypt_final)

Currently, the OpenSSL extension in PHP provides openssl_encrypt() and openssl_decrypt(), which require the entire data buffer in memory for AES-128-GCM, AES-256-GCM... This makes it impractical to ...
SecurityWeek

New Research Links VPN Apps, Highlights Security Deficiencies

Nearly two dozen VPN applications in Google Play contain security weaknesses impacting the privacy of their users, exposing transmitted data to decryption, a new Citizen Lab report shows. Furthermore, ...
Nanowerk

Very secure and highly efficient: encryption and decryption with luminescent perovskites

(Nanowerk News) To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information ...
CoinDesk

Quantum Computing Could Break Bitcoin-Like Encryption Far Easier Than Intially Thought, Google Researcher Says

A new research paper by Google Quantum AI researcher Craig Gidney shows that breaking widely used RSA encryption may require 20 times fewer quantum resources than previously believed. The finding did ...
Ars Technica

Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.

When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security ...
Bleeping Computer

New Akira ransomware decryptor cracks encryptions keys using GPUs

Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has released a decryptor for the Linux variant of Akira ransomware, which utilizes GPU power to retrieve the decryption key and unlock files for free. Nugroho ...