Unlike device encryption, which required you wipe the phone to remove it, SD card encryption can easily be reversed in the Settings menu.

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

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

Why wait for the Android L to have an encrypted Android device? Here's how to encrypt many Android devices in just five easy steps.

As attacks on mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets have surged in recent months, security researchers and customers have continued to look for ways to lock down their ...

After considering full device encryption for Android 5.0 phones and tablets earlier this year, Google has decided to enforce the requirement with Android 6.0.

Android has required that smartphones support storage encryption since Android 6 in 2015, but low-end devices have remained exempt because the demand would significantly impact performance.

However, it seemed like Google is requiring once again the full-disk encryption particularly on devices that release with the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow.

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 ...

Devices that launched with a version of Android prior to 6.0 are exempt from this unless they already used encryption by default, which was pretty much "none" aside from the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow makes full-disk encryption mandatory for most new devices Google is stepping up and mandating full disk encryption in Marshmallow (again). This time, we hope the feature ...