It is crucial to keep your data safe! Learn how to encrypt your Android smartphone and keep sensitive data and photos private.

WhatsApp's beta for Android adds a passkey feature to let users secure on-device backups with passkeys, stored in password ...

WhatsApp has implemented end-to-end encryption for Android backups, marking a significant enhancement to the security of users’ chat backups stored outside the messaging application. The feature, ...

More than half of Android devices are vulnerable to encryption bypass attack, say researchers.

Full Disk Encryption, the encryption system in place Android 5.0 onwards, is based on 128-bit device encryption which should be impossible to decrypt without the knowledge of the specific ...

The Washington Post is reporting that Google will finally step up security efforts on Android and enable device encryption by default. The Post has quoted company spokeswoman Niki Christoff as ...

So when a researcher discovered a flaw in Android’s full disk encryption scheme last week that allowed for decryption of the device, it seemed at first like a revolutionary security discovery.

Shortly after the announcement of iOS 8 in 2014, Google made headlines by saying that it would make full-device encryption mandatory for new Android devices running version 5.0. It then made more ...

Whisper Systems has released WhisperCore, a full-disk encryption application for the Nexus S Android phone.