Ransomware 'customer support' chat reveals criminals' ruthlessness

F-Secure publishes 34 pages of chat transcripts between victims and gang’s ‘support rep’. By Gregg Keizer Ransomware criminals chatting up victims, offering to delay deadlines, showing how to obtain Bitcoin,…

Stop using SHA1: It’s now completely unsafe

Researchers have achieved the first practical SHA-1 collision, generating two PDF files with the same signature. By Lucian Constantin Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the…

Tech Firms Urge Government to Cut Encryption Red Tape

Export procedures significantly more “liberal” in other countries. By Phil Muncaster Technology trade association techUK has called on government ministers to cut export red tape on products incorporating encryption in…