You may not think much about encryption day to day, but it’s the reason the FBI can't easily get at the data on the iPhones that come into its possession; it also means if someone steals your phone, ...

When news broke that PRISM, a surveillance program operated by the United States National Security Agency, has been collecting the phone records, emails, and other forms of communications, there was ...

WASHINGTON – Hundreds are facing charges after an elaborate, years-long sting in which the FBI secretly ran a phone encryption program that officials say criminals unwittingly used to facilitate drug ...

Former President Donald Trump would-be assassin's locked phone is in FBI custody. Stand by for the next attack on encryption, privacy, and security. The manufacturer of the shooter's phone is unknown.

The encryption algorithm GEA-1 was implemented in mobile phones in the 1990s to encrypt data connections. Since then, it has been kept secret. Now, a research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), ...

If you left your smartphone behind in a coffee shop or you were required to pack your tablet in your checked luggage, would your personal data be safely locked away? If you don't have your device ...

NEW YORK -- FBI Director James Comey likened impenetrable digital encryption to a "vicious guard dog" Tuesday, as a high-stakes fight between privacy and national security moved from the courts to ...

Encryption may sound like a tech buzzword, but even if you’re not tech-savvy, encryption is probably a very important part of your life. More than likely, your bank, credit card companies, and even ...

It might be a good thing if members of organized crime groups aren’t big readers of IT news because they’d certainly be interested in this product: a cordless encryption phone. The Gigaset SL74X, ...

In brief: Researchers from universities across Europe recently published a paper in which they speculated that a weakness uncovered in the GEA-1 encryption algorithm wasn't by chance. Turns out, they ...

Zoom has announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities to Zoom Phone, with breakout rooms to be given the same level of encryption in the near future. Zoom Phone customers now ...