Microsoft has helpfully provided a real-world example showing why mandating "back doors" so that authorities can bypass encryption to access digital data is a very bad idea. The fact that this example ...

Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

Rachit is a Features Writer at AndroidPolice. He has been covering the tech landscape for the past seven years and loves to help people figure out their devices and get the most out of them. He is ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Lyria Bennett Moses has previously done collaborative funded research with the ACIC, but it is unrelated to this piece. Gernot Heiser and Vanessa Teague do not work for, consult, own shares in or ...

Two types of technologies could change the privacy afforded in encrypted messages, and changes to this space could impact all of us. This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly ...

Steve Orrin is the federal CTO for Intel Corporation. He has held architectural and leadership positions at Intel, driving strategy and projects on identity, anti-malware, HTML5 security, cloud and ...

Data breaches are now the new norm and have reached epidemic proportions. Whether you work for a government agency, financial institution, health care company or private corporation, no organization ...

Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...