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 ...

European Parliament aims to exclude end-to-end chats from message-scanning regime

Messenger has end-to-end encryption as a default setting ...
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 ...
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 ...