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 ...

RSA certificates still vulnerable to 2019 flaw, reaearchers say. Update, March 20, 2025: This story, originally published March 17, has been updated with a statement from RSA regarding the encryption ...

In today’s digital economy, where organizations rely on cloud computing, mobile technologies and data-driven decision making, securing sensitive information has never been more critical. Encryption ...

On the surface, encryption has always seemed a no-brainer. Why expose confidential information to prying eyes when you could protect it by scrambling it? But even though encryption technologies have ...

The use of social media by terrorists and their sympathisers is a serious problem. But it has attracted some poorly thought through solutions. Of course we need better intelligence about the ...

The risk of a future 'Q-Day,' described by experts as the moment quantum computers could break widely used internet encryption, is growing as researchers warn the timeline may be closer than once ...