The developer of the popular file encryption software VeraCrypt says Microsoft has blocked access to the account he used for sending updates to Windows users, and warned that anyone who encrypts their ...

Missing emails between the parties involved in an audit of VeraCrypt, which began today, are now being blamed on errors in mail.app and GPGMail. Update To say the VeraCrypt audit, which begins today, ...

VeraCrypt, the free, open source disk encryption software based on TrueCrypt, has been audited by experts from cybersecurity company Quarkslab. The researchers found 8 critical, 3 medium, and 15 ...

It's been a long time and glad to see the Ars Hive Mind™ is still alive and well. I have two questions. First is in regards to TPM: I used group policy to bypass the TPM requirement and up until now ...

Two privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the last TrueCrypt build were discovered by James Forshaw of Google Project Zero, and patched in VeraCrypt. TrueCrypt may be a fond memory for most of its ...

Security audit for full-disk encryption tool VeraCrypt found vulnerabilities, but they have already been addressed in VeraCrypt 1.19 Security researchers have completed the Open Source Technology ...

The developers of the disk encryption software VeraCrypt and the VPN software WireGuard have recently been confronted with the fact that Microsoft has suspended their developer accounts. This made it ...

Facepalm: Microsoft's decision to make Recall an always-on screen recording feature has drawn widespread criticism. Privacy advocates urge users to shut it off, and ...

Editor's take: Long ago, Microsoft was busy attracting developers to build new software products for its PC platform. Now, the company can "erase" entire projects without thinking twice about the ...