Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

Vince Berk is the Chief Strategist at Quantum Xchange, a post-quantum crypto-agility provider. Ph.D. in AI/ML, founder of FlowTraq. It’s still anyone’s guess when quantum computing will go fully ...

The former Home Secretary Jack Straw has attacked what he calls "naive" civil liberty groups for opposing Internet snooping laws which could, he believes, have prevented the horrendous terrorist ...

Security experts have long worried that advances in quantum computing could eventually make it easier to break encryption that protects the privacy of people’s data. That’s because these sophisticated ...

We’ve reached a deadlock in the encryption debate. It’s a complicated, passionate issue. People are talking past one another and proposals have fallen flat. FBI Director James Comey has called for an ...

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), ...

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report discusses the debate over whether the government should require technology firms to use weak encryption for messaging applications. The ISMG Security ...

A cybersecurity researcher in Israel exposed a critical flaw in Google’s Android operating system that can be exploited to decrypt a device. What’s more, the researcher posted the exploit code on the ...

A secret court hearing on iCloud encryption began on Friday, amid calls in both the UK and US to make the proceedings public. The British government is demanding that Apple create backdoor access, not ...

We experience encryption daily, mostly without our conscious engagement, by dint of browsers (encrypting data-in-motion) and devices (encrypting data-at-rest). Building encryption into products has ...

The strength of Apple’s revised encryption scheme in iOS 8 hinges on users choosing a strong passcode or password, which they rarely do, according to a Princeton University fellow. Apple beefed up the ...

A protocol designed and promoted by the British government for encrypting voice calls has a by-design weakness built into it that could allow for mass surveillance, according to a University College ...