Internet-connected gadgets like light bulbs and fitness trackers are notorious for poor security. That's partly because they’re often made cheaply and with haste, which leads to careless mistakes and ...

Australia's push to enact laws that would allow its law-enforcement agencies to compel companies help them break their own encryption represent an existential threat to the internet's security and ...

This is the big one: New documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA and its British equivalent, GCHQ (pictured above), have cracked VPNs, SSL, and TLS -- the encryption technologies that ...

Every day, billions of people shop online, log into bank accounts, send emails, join video meetings, and access cloud ...

An aging core internet protocol is finally getting the ax by Microsoft Corp. But it wasn’t just last month’s announcement that the software vendor was ending support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 of ...

The National Security Agency, working with the British government, has secretly been unraveling encryption technology that billions of Internet users rely upon to keep their electronic messages and ...

Spurred by government surveillance of data, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is making progress toward its goal of encrypting all internet traffic using technology and scorecards. If there is one ...

You might be shocked to learn this, but when a quivering-lipped Chloe from 24 cracks the encryption on a terrorist's hard drive in 30 seconds, the TV show is faking it. "So what? It's just a TV show." ...

Because the internet is a strange and complicated place, the fate of your digital privacy is, at this very moment, intertwined with that of online message boards and comment sections. And things, ...

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools ...

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools ...

LONDON - NOVEMBER 01: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference on November 01, 2011 in London, England. The conference, which is being ...