(Getty Images) Online romance scams expand, now with more cryptocurrency The FTC says that of the $547 million in romance scams reported in 2021, $139 million in losses involved cryptocurrency transactions. Feb 10, 2022 By Joe Warminsky
(Lionsgate) Securiosity: Oh man, this ‘Crypto’ trailer It was a lighter week in news, so we laughed at a movie trailer. Mar 18, 2019 By cyberscoop_staff Jeff Stone
image via Pexels by David McBee // Access via CC2.0 Seoul claims North Korea stole millions worth of cryptocurrency from domestic exchanges The North is still trying to hack into South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges. Feb 5, 2018 By Chloe Kim
(Getty Images) Newly uncovered ‘Zealot’ malware could double as 2017 buzzword bingo Apache Struts. Eternal Blue. Cryptocurrency. This story has it all. Dec 19, 2017 By Chris Bing
The European Court of Justice. Photo by katarina_dzurekova/Flickr(CC BY 2.0) New battle in ‘Crypto Wars’ heating up in wake of Manchester attack Formal talks between governments and tech companies are taking place as European countries ratchet up their calls for encryption backdoors. May 25, 2017 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
Jimmy Baikovicius/Flickr Facebook Messenger upgrades encrypted chat feature "It's a clear step forward in bringing the benefits of secure, robust cryptography to billions of people around the world," said one former employee. May 18, 2017 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
Researchers build WannaCry decryption tools for Windows XP Windows XP users have a chance to decrypt WannaCry and save their files from oblivion. May 18, 2017 By Patrick Howell O'Neill
(Getty Images) Confide, a favorite app of Trump’s White House, is ‘a triumph of marketing over substance’ Encryption is en vogue in Washington, D.C., but the app of choice for some of the most powerful and "paranoid Republicans" in the capital is profoundly insecure,… Feb 14, 2017
(Getty) NIST asks for help with quantum-proof crypto Today's crypto will be vulnerable to tomorrow's computers, and NIST wants to get a start on quantum-proofing its standards. Dec 21, 2016
(Flickr user Niharb) New Google test auto-checks encryption Project Wycheproof is "a collection of unit tests that detect known weaknesses or check for expected behaviors of some cryptographic algorithms." Dec 20, 2016