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szopin [soylentnews.org] writes:

ITWorld reports:

The flaws, which were apparently missed in an earlier independent audit of the TrueCrypt source code, could allow attackers to obtain elevated privileges on a system if they have access to a limited user account.

The original authors of TrueCrypt, who have remained anonymous, abruptly shut down the project in May 2014 warning that "it may contain unfixed security issues" and advised users to switch to BitLocker, Microsoft's full-disk encryption feature that's available in certain versions of Windows.

Full story: http://www.itworld.com/article/2987438/newly-found-truecrypt-flaw-allows-full-system-compromise.html [itworld.com]

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