Victims of the GandCrab ransomware can recover their files without giving into the demands of the criminals thanks to a new decryption tool released for free on www.nomoreransom.org. This data ...

I have blogged many times, and written a few law review articles, about how the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination applies to compelled decryption. The New Jersey Supreme Court ...

Over the past two weeks there has been a lot of press regarding the Chimera Ransomware and its threats to publish your data online. Even though this is a scary threat, the reality is that Chimera does ...

In my recent post, I noted that a lot of the recent legal developments in the field of computer crime law are about responses to encryption. I thought I would expand on the theme of what I'll call ...

MEGA has released a security update to address a set of severe vulnerabilities that could have exposed user data, even if the data had been stored in encrypted form. MEGA is a New Zealand-based cloud ...

Gartner takes a close look at security features, and in particular, the options available in cases where passive mode decryption is a requirement. In the nearly two years since the IETF ratified the ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit has a case pending on the Fifth Amendment limits of forcing a suspect to enter his password to decrypt a computer. The ...

The latest decryption tool to be made available through the No More Ransom initiative tackles the latest strand of GandCrab and is expected to save victims millions in ransomware payments. The No More ...