An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalysts. It is possible the flaw could still allow access to some ...

Your phone or tablet holds a lot of personal data about you and your life. Text messages, personal and business contacts, emails, credit card information, private photos and videos — all of these ...

You may not think much about encryption day to day, but it’s the reason the FBI can't easily get at the data on the iPhones that come into its possession; it also means if someone steals your phone, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. FRANKFURT - A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted ...

Lawmakers and law enforcement agencies around the world, including in the United States, have increasingly called for backdoors in the encryption schemes that protect your data, arguing that national ...

This is the third installment in Reason's four-part documentary series titled "Cypherpunks Write Code." Watch the complete series here. In 1977, a team of cryptographers at MIT made an astonishing ...