Regular readers know my longstanding interest in the correct Fifth Amendment standard for compelling a suspect to decrypt an encrypted device. The Eleventh Circuit adopted one standard in 2012, but I ...

Security software company Avast has released a free decryptor for the BianLian ransomware strain to help victims of the malware recover locked files without paying the hackers. The availability of a ...

Czech cybersecurity software firm Avast has released a decryption utility to help TargetCompany ransomware victims recover their files for free. However, as Avast warns, this decryptor can only be ...

Refusing to decrypt your hard drive for authorities, even if you’ve allegedly forgotten the password, is still considered contempt of court. That’s according to a U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A Colorado woman, recently ordered by a judge to turn over her password to decrypt her hard drive, may not remember what that password is. Last month, a federal judge ruled that Ramona Fricosu had ...

You may have the right to remain silent, but if the ruling of a federal judge in a recent Colorado case is anything to go by, your computer doesn’t get any such protection — even if the hard drive is ...

Next week, a local judge in Miami-Dade County, Florida, is expected to issue a key ruling in a bizarre sextortion case involving two Miami-area social media personalities. The question before the ...