Tempo

Indonesian Ministry Says Brain Cipher's Decryption Keys Work on PDNS Specimen

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Director General of Informatics Application (Aptika) at the Ministry of Communication and Informatics (Kominfo Ministry), Semuel Abrijani Pangerapan, revealed that the ...
Tempo

Brain Cipher Vows to Release PDNS Decryption Keys for Free, Expert: 'Don't Be Easily Fooled'

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Brain Cipher group, which hacked the Indonesian Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) with LockBit 3.0 type ransomware announced on Tuesday that it would open the encrypted ...
TechSpot

Ransomware gang freely hands over decryption key after Indonesia attack, requests public donations as thanks

WTF?! The cybercriminal group that infected Indonesia's Temporary National Data Center (PDNS) with a strain of malware has freely released the decryption key to the government and apologized. The ...
CSOonline

Decryption Is Key for Enhanced Security and Monitoring

In Part 1 of my series on Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption, I went over a few basics of encryption, discussed TLS 1.2, and concluded by outlining the improvements TLS 1.3 provided. In this ...
The Conversation

Deciphering the Philosophers’ Stone: how we cracked a 400‑year‑old alchemical cipher

What secret alchemical knowledge could be so important it required sophisticated encryption? The setting was Amsterdam, 2019. A conference organised by the Society for the History of Alchemy and ...