encryption

As entrepreneurs, information brokers, and tech giants endlessly increase their entry to people' information and actions throughout the online, instruments like VPNs or cookie blockers can really feel more and more feeble and futile. In…

Within the US authorities's ongoing marketing campaign to guard information within the age of quantum computers, a brand new and highly effective assault that used a single conventional pc to utterly break a fourth-round candidate…

“The first thing organizations need to do is understand where they are using crypto, how, and why,” says El Kaafarani. “Start assessing which parts of your system need to switch, and build a transition to post-quantum cryptography from…

Since early 2016, WhatsApp has protected messages and conversations sent in its app with end-to-end encryption. This means that nobody other than the sender and receiver of messages can read their content—not even Meta can read or snoop…

You never know when one of your files might reach someone it wasn't intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe even an unauthorized user accessing your computer.Should that happen,…

What do Russian protesters have in common with Twitter users freaked out about Elon Musk reading their DMs and people worried about the criminalization of abortion? It would serve them all to be protected by a more robust set of design…

A group of human rights lawyers and investigators called on the Hague this week to bring what would be the first ever “cyber war crimes” charges. The group is urging the International Criminal Court to bring charges against the dangerous…

While it may be increasingly important for people in the US to consciously consider what they're posting when it comes to their own abortions or those of loved ones, Hayley McMahon, an independent public health researcher who studies…

The newest law designed to rein in Big Tech aims to make all your favorite messaging apps work seamlessly together. Sounds great, right? Well, we have some bad news.Every day, billions of messages are sent using end-to-end encryption.…

Whether you want to sell your computer, get rid of a virus, or just erase all the data on your hard disk drive for more space, knowing how to quickly and effectively wipe a hard disk drive is a useful skill to have in your back pocket.…