Update, April 27, 2025: This story, originally published April 25, has been updated with new information from security experts concerning Google alert impersonation attacks that target Gmail users and ...

Facebook's defence will be welcomed by those who have concerns about data breaches, but will frustrate law enforcement agencies who believe accessing encrypted messages could be key to stopping terror ...

The latest deadly terror attack is bringing the “crypto wars” further toward the spotlight. The crypto wars refers to a decades-long political battle over the ...

CIA Director John Brennan discusses ISIS's use of information technologies. The terrorist attacks in Paris likely would have occurred even if intelligence and law enforcement agencies could have ...

A new vulnerability in Apple Silicon chips can allow a determined attacker to access a user's data by stealing the cryptographic keys — and a fix could considerably impact encryption performance.

Security operations platform startup Adlumin Inc. today announced a new ransomware prevention feature that immediately detects and stops ransomware from encrypting files. Called Adlumin Ransomware ...

Good news for ransomware victims: Researchers have released a free tool on GitHub that they say can help victims of intermittent encryption attacks recover data from some types of partially encrypted ...

For the third time in less than a year, security researchers have found a method to attack encrypted Web communications, a direct result of weaknesses that were mandated two decades ago by the U.S.

Computer scientists in Japan say they’ve developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent ...

Attack works on older WPA systems that use the TKIP algorithm and gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain wireless routers Computer scientists in Japan say ...