TELEGRAM FOUNDER AND CEO Pavel Durov built a messaging app predicated upon its ability to keep private things private, so it's no surprise that he agrees with Apple on the issue of encryption.
In the early days of President Obama's administration, thousands of American military and intelligence officers worked to develop a plan that could feasibly take down critical infrastructure in Iran, according to a new documentary called Zero Days,
In recent years, air-gapped computers, which are disconnected from the internet so hackers can not remotely access their contents, have become a regular target for security researchers.
There's actually good news this week, which can feel almost magical if you spend most of your time reading headlines about political mudslinging, the wholly idiotic encryption debate, and missing elderly people.
In January, state legislators from both California and New York introduced bills that would ban the retail sale of smartphones with full-disk encryption ??" a technology designed to guarantee customers' digital data stored within a phone is only
Data security is a worldwide problem, and there is a wide world of encryption solutions available. Most of these products are developed and sold by for-profit entities. They are available, for sale or free download, all over the world.
US lawmakers including Senator John McCain and Ted Lieu are attempting to undermine technology companies' efforts to encrypt everyone's communications, citing dangers to law enforcement.
The head of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) group -- basically the country's chief hacker -- spoke earlier this week. He talked both about how the NSA hacks into networks, and what network defenders can do to protect themselves.
(NaturalNews) The U.S. is vulnerable to cyber attacks from China and other countries capable of shutting down the power grid and disabling vital infrastructure, according to Admiral Michael Rogers, head of both the National Security Agency and the U.
This week, 16 states got tired of waiting for the Feds to do something and introduced their own legislation that would provide new privacy protections for student data, employee social media accounts, location tracking, and more.
A group of hackers has dumped the names, phone numbers and email addresses of more than 80 police officers from Miami, Florida, in what appears to be an attempt to "dox" the agents.
The operation -- whose details remain largely secret -- was at least the third time in recent years that FBI agents took control of a child pornography site but infected the sites with malware that allowed agents to identify hundreds of users.
foreign hackers.(NaturalNews) A silent war is escalating in the U.S., a war of hackers and cyber attackers. Enemies of the U.S. aren't preparing to invade militarily; they have all the intelligence they need to tear down the U.S. from within, using
There's a manhunt for a hacker underway in the world of Bitcoin, and this time (yes, there was a last time) the bounty is nearly half a million dollars' worth of the virtual currency.
(NaturalNews) For years, the idea that hackers could take down a large, regional power grid has been only a theoretical threat to national security. But no more...