In his Cyber Crime column, Peter A. Crusco addresses the legal landscape surrounding the question of what legal options are available for decrypting an electronic device that has been seized via a ...

New versions of the XWorm backdoor are being distributed in phishing campaigns after the original developer, XCoder, abandoned the project last year.

Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting.

Honey Encryption is an encryption tool in the works that fools an attacker with bogus decrypted data that looks like it could be a plausible guess at an encryption key or password. Traps are ...

Imagine the chaos if a malicious actor leaked a list of all alleged U.S. police informants and government spies. A situation of this magnitude would decimate foreign service operations and jeopardize ...

Over the years, researchers have repeatedly broken the security and privacy promises that Intel and AMD have made about their ...

Australia's push for a decryption magic bullet will not undermine "legitimate encryption", and may not need legislation at all, according to Department of Home Affairs secretary Michael Pezzullo.

Yesterday, Google announced that Google Workspace users who have access to Gmail client-side encryption will now be able to ...

As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn't actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation. The Intercept has written that if you have ...