This time, Marco was studying Cryptsetup, a utility that allows users to encrypt their hard drives via LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup). Cryptsetup allows users to retry passwords over and over again ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

An attacker can abuse a vulnerability to launch a shell with root privileges on most Linux machines just by holding the ‘Enter’ key for 70 seconds. Researchers Hector Marco & Ismael Ripoll unveiled ...

A vulnerability in cryptsetup, a utility used to set up encrypted filesystems on Linux distributions, could allow an attacker to retrieve a root rescue shell on some systems. A vulnerability in ...

Some of most popular Linux distributions including Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Fedora come with a disk and partition manager tool called GNOME Disks, a tool developed by the GNOME project. While it’s ...

Open-source legend TrueCrypt may be gone, but the usefulness of full disk encryption carries on. So what’s a crypto fan to do now for their encryption needs? The first phase of the TrueCrypt audit ...

Sometimes Linux users can be smug about their system's security. And sometimes a major hole that's been hiding in Linux since about version 2.6 opens up and in you fall. As described in the security ...