Usually, a story about hacking a coded message will have some computer element or, at least, a machine like an Enigma. But ...

Right now, messages you send in messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Threema are encrypted to guarantee that nobody else can read them - but what if, one day, a computer is invented that is able ...

Android smartphones, like other phones, send text messages in plain text. The text messages can be intercepted and read on the network. The text messages could also be read by anyone with access to ...

End-to-end encryption secures messages before they're sent and decrypts them only after arriving at a recipient's device.

Putting sensitive data in email messages or cloud storage should give you the heebie-jeebies, but a good dose of cryptography can give you peace of mind. Pretty Good ...

The popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp Messenger has a major design flaw in its cryptographic implementation that could allow attackers to decrypt intercepted messages, according to a Dutch ...

What internet users Down Under say online will no longer be kept on the down low. On Thursday, Australia’s Parliament passed the Assistance and Access Bill. The legislation will force tech companies ...

Encryption is a tricky business. You'll run into terms like TLS, zero-knowledge, and end-to-end encryption, which have ...

Police in the Netherlands said they decrypted more than 258,000 messages sent using IronChat, an app billed as providing end-to-end encryption that was endorsed by National Security Agency leaker ...

Facebook has defended end-to-end message encryption on WhatsApp and Messenger, despite admitting it helps "bad people do bad things." The words will be welcomed by those who have concerns about data ...