The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new advocacy initiative directly targeting Apple, Google, and other tech giants to demand broader adoption of data encryption and more transparent ...

The RansomHouse ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has recently upgraded its encryptor, switching from a relatively simple single-phase linear technique to a more complex, multi-layered method. In ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

This problem often occurs when your local Outlook client uses outdated cached policy data rather than obtaining the latest encryption or labeling settings from Microsoft 365. Outlook has multiple ...

Qiang Tang receives funding from Google via Digital Future Initiative to support the research on this project. Moti Yung works for Google as a distinguished research scientist. Yanan Li is supported ...

A new study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and SII Generative AI Research Lab (GAIR) shows that training large language models (LLMs) for complex, autonomous tasks does not require massive datasets.

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a new cryptography standard that's available for immediate use. The standard is designed to assure the protection of authenticated ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

SAP SE today addressed two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in its SAP Graphical User Interface client applications following their discovery in coordinated research by Pathlock Inc. and Fortinet Inc.