Matthew D. Green, PhD, a well-known cryptographer and researcher at Johns Hopkins University, will carry out an audit of OpenVPN.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Shadow Brokers debacle, the VeraCrypt audit, Pokemon ransomware, and a browser address bar vulnerability. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_19_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

To say the VeraCrypt audit, which begins today, got off to an inauspicious start would be an understatement. On Sunday, two weeks after the announcement that the open source file and disk encryption software would be formally scrutinized for security vulnerabilities, executives at one of the firms funding the audit posted a notice that four...