British Hacker Wins Legal Battle Over Encryption Keys

In Brief
Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil action to obtain the evidence. Lauri Love, a 31-year-old hacker, has been accused of aiding

THN Weekly Roundup — 11 Most Important Hacking News Stories

We are back with our last week’s top cyber security threats and challenges, just in case you missed any of them (ICYMI).



THN Weekly Round Up is The Hacker News efforts to help you provide all important stories of last week in one shot.



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1. Quantum

TrueCrypt Encryption Software Has Two Critical Flaws: It's time to Move On

If you are among thousands of privacy-conscious people who are still using ‘no longer available’ TrueCrypt Encryption Software, then you need to pay attention.



Two critical security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the most famous encryption tool, TrueCrypt, that could expose the user’s data to hackers if exploited.



TrueCrypt was audited earlier this by a team of Security

TrueCrypt Security Audit Concludes No NSA Backdoor

The Security audit of TrueCrypt disk-encryption software has been completed, with no evidence of any critical design vulnerabilities or deliberate backdoors in its code.



TrueCrypt -- one of the world's most-used open source file encryption software used by Millions of privacy and security enthusiasts -- is being audited from past two years by a team of security researchers to assess if it