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Nitrogen ransomware is so broken even the crooks can't unlock your files

Gang walks away with nothing, victims are left with irreparable hypervisors Cybersecurity experts usually advise victims against paying ransomware crooks, but that advice goes double for those who ...

New Amaranth Dragon cyberespionage group exploits WinRAR flaw

A new threat actor called Amaranth Dragon, linked to APT41 state-sponsored Chinese operations, exploited the CVE-2025-8088 ...

7 apps I use to lock down, encrypt, and store my private files - and most are free

VeraCrypt is a free, open-source disk encryption software that is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. With VeraCrypt, you create a virtual encrypted disk on your internal drive that can then be ...

Massive trove of Epstein files released by DOJ, including 3 million documents and photos

The Justice Department released more new documents Friday from the Jeffrey Epstein files, more than a month after the DOJ's ...
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How McStumble Saves My Sanity While I Try to Become Productive

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I use this clever workaround to lock files and folders on my PC

I did not download a file locker. I repurposed a tool I already had.
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Rust Implementation of the PSP Security Protocol

Google have released the PSP (PSP Security Protocol) specification and a reference implementation. That implementation is in C. The psp_security crate is a Rust port of the reference implementation.
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Python script to decrypt aoe2campaign.gpv files, and two methods of extracting the AES keys to do so.

Currently as of AoE2DE update: Update 158041, only Memory Dump script 2 is working (titled Dump gpv keys, iv [Method 2] and dump decrypted campaigns ) Update 130746, only Memory Dump script 1 is ...