As a general guideline, it's safe to assume that, with some shiny new "Totally Ultra Encrypted Mega Secure Chat4All" app, someone screwed up the crypto, somewhere. Crypto between a few people who can ...

What internet users Down Under say online will no longer be kept on the down low. On Thursday, Australia’s Parliament passed the Assistance and Access Bill. The legislation will force tech companies ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government on Friday proposed a new cybersecurity law to force global technology companies such as Facebook and Google to help police by unscrambling ...

The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp Messenger has a major design flaw in its cryptographic implementation that could allow attackers to decrypt intercepted messages, according to a Dutch ...

Putting sensitive data in email messages or cloud storage should give you the heebie-jeebies, but a good dose of cryptography can give you peace of mind. Pretty Good ...

(TNS) — A Hennepin, Minn., County sheriff investigator’s request to obtain a criminal suspect’s encrypted messages on Facebook has sent a chill through digital privacy circles — even if most experts ...

On Friday the government proposed a law that would force tech companies including Google and Facebook to decrypt messages sent by criminals and terrorists, Bloomberg reports. While a warrant would be ...

I once co-wrote a book on enterprise email where I likened email encryption to a “sucking chest wound.” That was in 1997, when you had to do all the encryption key management on your own, a daunting ...

The Australian government on Friday proposed a set of new cybersecurity measures that would compel technology companies like Apple to provide law enforcement agencies ...