How far are criminal investigations inhibited by the wide availability of end-to-end encryption (E2E)? The Home Office and UK law enforcement agencies think the problem is urgent, hence the ...

A new ransomware campaign encrypts Amazon S3 buckets using AWS's Server-Side Encryption with Customer Provided Keys (SSE-C) known only to the threat actor, demanding ransoms to receive the decryption ...

It's not often that a piece of FBI advice triggers a Snopes fact check. But the agency's urgent message this month to Americans, often summarized as "stop texting," surprised many consumers. The ...

Microsoft has updated a key cryptographic library with two new encryption algorithms designed to withstand attacks from quantum computers. The updates were made last week to SymCrypt, a core ...

Dozens of cities and counties around the U.S. have been trying to tackle poverty by giving people no-strings cash aid, an idea that gained traction after the success of stimulus checks and other ...

Sound familiar? These are the mandates that many CISOs are receiving right now. They’re coming from executive management teams that are alarmed by the rising tide of ransomware attacks, scrambling to ...

A known-plaintext attack (KPA) occurs when a hacker uses pairs of both encrypted and unencrypted data to figure out the encryption algorithm or key. In this attack, the hacker has access to both the ...

Twitter users who want to encrypt their direct messages will now finally have a shot, though there are a few conditions and constraints that may get in your way. Twitter itself announced the new ...

Pervasive encryption that protects data not just in transit and at rest but in use — thus freeing companies of the fear of data breaches — has long been a dream of business executives, IT teams, and ...