When I sent out this alert about Banks not using SSL to prove their identity to their users, quite a bit of feedback was excessively cynical on encryption technology and cryptography in general along ...

Spotted an interesting report recently stating that 768-bit RSA encryption has been broken. Specifically, what researchers have done is factorised a 768=bit 232-digit number using a number field sieve ...

Readers of a certain age will remember those 'invisible ink' spy toys that let you write a 'secret' message which would only appear after rubbing the page with half of a lemon. Yeah, this is not that.

Prodded by "concerns about overbroad government surveillance," Google beat an end-of-year deadline to retire Web certificates with less secure 1,024-bit encryption keys. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

New Zealand-based Mac OS X software developer SubRosaSoft.com Ltd. on Tuesday introduced CipherDisk, a new utility aimed at Mac OS X users looking to protect data on internal and external hard disk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This article is more than 6 years old. Last month I reported ...

A firmware update coming around the September timeframe adds true AES 256-bit hardware encryption to Samsung's 840, 840 EVO and 840 PRO SSD products. Two flavors of encryption are covered, Trusted ...