Operation Trojan Shield worked because the FBI stopped chasing the underworld’s encrypted phones and built one of its own. Criminals used Anom to discuss shipments, murders, and money laundering, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man looks at his phone in New York on June 7. (Michael Nagle) Federal officials warned Tuesday that a massive Chinese hacking ...

Your phone lock screen is supposed to be your last line of defense. If your device gets lost or stolen, that PIN or passcode should keep strangers out of your photos, messages and financial apps. But ...

SAN DIEGO (CN) — A man who distributed bugged phones to Colombian drug traffickers and money launderers as part of a bizarre international FBI sting operation was sentenced to over five years in ...

South Korean police have retrieved server records from encrypted phones used by former President Yoon Suk-yeol and former Presidential Security Service (PSS) officials as part of an investigation into ...

Canadian businessman Thomas Herdman is awaiting trial in France for his alleged role in the distribution of modified smartphones installed with the Sky ECC app. The 63-year-old was arrested in June ...

A Berlin court has raised questions over whether data from 120 million messages obtained by police hacking an encrypted phone service can continue to be lawfully used as evidence in prosecutions in ...

Think twice before sending your next text message. Or better yet, make sure you are using an end-to-end encryption method. End-to-end encryption helps ensure that only the intended recipients can read ...

As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.