The revelation that the CIA (and German Intelligence) was in secret control of the Swiss cryptography firm Crypto AG highlights…
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The CIA secretly owned a company that sold rigged encryption systems to other countries, allowing the agency to spy on…
Child-protection organizations say Facebook’s decision to strongly encrypt messages will give offenders a place to hide. The company is moving…
End-to-end encrypted messaging is a major issue for law enforcement—as the world shifts from easy to crack (for governments) cellular…
Privacy is a hot-button issue nowadays, and it should be. Information bloodsuckers like Facebook and Google are having a heyday…
Encryption is a threat to public safety, the FBI director argued before testifying at a Senate hearing. Crypto experts and…
Russian and Chinese government officials have reportedly accessed more than one million classified documents that were stolen by former National…
One of the United States government’s top counterterrorism officials says Congress must help investigators crack the encrypted communications of terrorists…
Thanks to Edward Snowden, we’re getting a new look at which programs can successfully keep out the NSA. A report…
Investigators in the United States won’t be handed over the decryption keys necessary to access digital data seized from the…
o fear of being tapped by foreign agents, as she now has a secure, German-upgraded Blackberry, Bild reports. Merkel’s contacts…
A federal appeals panel on Wednesday dismissed what attorneys for the Lavabit email service said was “immense public concern” surrounding…
The critical “Heartbleed” bug reported earlier this week to have affected the security of most of the internet was discovered…
A team of researchers has found that the American security firm RSA implemented two different encryption tools built by the…
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) is pushing for laws that would make telecommunications companies retain their customers’ web-browsing data,…
The National Security Agency is reportedly building a ‘quantum computer’ capable of breaking encryption used to protect the most vital…
Security firm RSA denies accusations that it entered into a secret contract with the National Security Agency to promote the…
The National Security Agency arranged a clandestine US$10 million contract with computer security power RSA that allowed the spy agency…