Signal says its systems are secure but it is taking reports of targeted attempts to hack some officials "very seriously".

The Russian state-sponsored APT28 threat group is using a custom variant of the open-source Covenant post-exploitation framework for long-term espionage operations.

To protest age-verification laws, Pornhub is blocked in almost half of the US states, as well as Australia, France, and the UK. Here's how we got here, and how VPNs can help you connect.

The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

A new encryption initiative from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urges large technology and communications companies to follow through on previously made data and privacy protection promises ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

There has been a significant rise in ransomware campaigns which do not rely on encryption as cybercriminal extortion groups shift their operations. An increasing number of cybercriminals are relying ...

Seravault is a progressive web app that allows users to encrypt confidential information and securely share with others. The app implements end-to-end encryption so that the man-in-the-middle attack ...

Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

The UK has agreed to drop its mandate that Apple install a backdoor into the encrypted data stored on its devices, though it isn’t clear whether this is an overall change or simply a tweak to protect ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The United Kingdom has dropped its push to require that tech giant Apple provide the country’s security officials with backdoor access ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...