How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively ...
Security Boulevard

Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

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 ...
TechRound

Can Antivirus Software Detect And Remove Ransomware?

Even top-of-the-range antivirus software can’t restore encrypted data unless a certain decryption key has been developed for ...
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 ...
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This open-source app finally convinced me to cancel my Notion subscription

Notion is great, but Anytype gives you a lot of flexibility and freedom thanks to it being an open-source local option that ...

Man Accused of Using Encrypted Apps to Communicate With Teen Before She was Found Dead

You follow this story because it shows how a private conversation can become a public tragedy. Court records say a 39-year-old man communicated with a 17-year-old on encrypted platforms for about a ...
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Nintendo issues DMCA notices against Switch emulators on GitHub

Nintendo targets six Switch emulator projects on GitHub with fresh DMCA notices, including Eden, Citron, and Sudachi. The ...