After ongoing attempts in Europe, Canada is the latest country pushing for "lawful access" to data for law enforcement. This, ...

For decades, citizens have been able to listen in on police chatter. Cincinnati city and Hamilton County officials are ...

Just because you have antivirus software installed on your PC doesn't mean a zero-day Trojan can't steal your personal data. The top encryption software keeps you safe from malware (and the NSA).

FBI warnings and new attacks show encrypted messaging isn’t as safe as you think — your phone and your accounts are now the real targets.

Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s ...

As high-profile email breaches continue to impact millions of users across both free and paid platforms, the limitations of ...

New research from Google and Caltech suggests the computational cost to break traditional encryption with quantum computers is now materially lower than earlier estimates. This shift has moved quantum ...

Quantum computer breaks Bitcoin-style encryption for the first time. Learn what this breakthrough means for BTC security and ...

Apple changed the messaging landscape in 2011, enabling full encryption for its new iMessage platform from the start. It seems extraordinary that it has taken a further 15-years to bring us to the ...

The case, led by a special agent in the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, focused on claims that some ...

Strong encryption is key to good data security. But how strong is too strong? Is there a point at which encryption jeopardizes security rather than preserving it? Should companies be allowed to create ...