Right now, messages you send in messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Threema are encrypted to guarantee that nobody else ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

One of the most well-established and disruptive uses for a future quantum computer is the ability to crack encryption. A new algorithm could significantly lower the barrier to achieving this. Despite ...

Quantum computing could break today’s encryption, so organisations must act now to stay secure, says Nelly Porter, director ...

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting.

If quantum computers capable of breaking Bitcoin’s algorithm were around today, the network’s security could already be ...

It has long been believed that data fades quickly from a computer’s memory and that its encryption is sound once the computer is shut down. Not so, found Princeton University researchers who pried ...

Chinese boffins have used a D-Wave quantum computer to mount a successful quantum attack on widely used encryption algorithms. The advance, led by Wang Chao of Shanghai University, poses a “real and ...

Nowadays data breaches aren't rare shocks—they're a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our ...

The difference is that this time it says it only wants to damage the privacy and security of the UK’s subject population.