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 ...

The popular videoconferencing software is adding enhanced encryption to its phone service and individual breakout rooms.

It is not being asked to design a vulnerability in its encryption, which critics call a “ backdoor,” but if it complies and writes code to let the FBI flood the phone with password guesses, it ...

FRANKFURT - A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted online a how-to guide for cracking the encryption that keeps the calls ...

At Zoomtopia, the company announced that end-to-end encryption, which they rolled out last October in Zoom Meetings, will now be available for Zoom Phone users.

Cellphone encryption practices could be keeping investigators from solving the murder of Brittney Mills and her son, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore III said Saturday, but ...

But then police hit a wall: They didn't have the technology needed to break the phone's encryption, said Sgt. Nate Hanley, an investigator on the case with the Cathedral City Police Department.

Google is changing the way you confirm if contacts are legit. The company has begun rolling out a QR code to verify that the person you're communicating with is, in fact, who they say they are, ...

Encryption When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software Part three in Reason 's documentary series, "Cypherpunks Write Code," tells the story of the U.S. government's ...