After last year’s revelations about U.S. Internet surveillance raised interest in privacy tools, Google and Yahoo both announced they were working on software to let people who use their e-mail ...

The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...

The push for web encryption, or HTTPS, is a crucial, attainable step in improving the Internet's privacy and security. And ideally, we'd encrypt the entire web, as some organizations are trying to do.

About 49 percent of Internet traffic is encrypted, according to a new study released Monday. That is a 36 percentage point jump from April 2014, when only about 13 percent of traffic was being ...

Mike Chapple is associate teaching professor of IT, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame. Just hearing the word “encryption” can bring shudders to technology professionals, many of ...

Security researchers have expanded and improved a three-year-old attack that exploits the compression mechanism used to speed up browsing in order to recover sensitive information from encrypted Web ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Last month, the company announced that threat actors had accessed “certain elements” of customer info. Just as ...

FBI Director James Comey went to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to make a case for Silicon Valley companies to continue to let law enforcement monitor communications over encrypted devices. FBI director, ...