The action by the encryption expert, Karsten Nohl, aimed to question the effectiveness of the 21-year-old G.S.M. algorithm, a code developed in 1988 and still used to protect the privacy of 80 percent ...

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 ...

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 ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom(GER:DTE) is to launch an app for smartphones that encrypts voice and text messages and will be available to all its users. Consumer privacy fears have sparked ...

While phone encryption is considered a hot topic by lawmakers who are worried it is being used by criminals and terrorists, Matthew Green, a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University has ...

Google said it would beef up encryption of its mobile operating system, so that it would not hold "keys" to devices that could be shared with law enforcement - even if it were served with a warrant.

It might be a good thing if members of organized crime groups aren’t big readers of IT news because they’d certainly be interested in this product: a cordless encryption phone. The Gigaset SL74X, ...

Zoom has announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities to Zoom Phone, with breakout rooms to be given the same level of encryption in the near future. Zoom Phone customers now ...

It might be a good thing if Tony Soprano isn’t a big reader of IT news because he’d certainly be interested in this product: a cordless encryption phone. The Gigaset SL74X, unveiled Thursday at the ...

Apple is developing new security measures that will make it harder for governments to break into a locked iPhone. Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that creating a backdoor into the iPhone would be ...