The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new advocacy initiative directly targeting Apple, Google, and other tech giants to demand broader adoption of data encryption and more transparent ...

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

Abstract: In everyday life, it is crucial to protect our data and communication. The necessity for secure message communication is not a novel concept. It has existed for a long time. Data security ...

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt data without overloading them. According to Cisco Talos researchers, ...

Gianluca Di Bella claimed quantum computing already makes encryption and ZK-proofs vulnerable due to “harvest now, decrypt later” risks. Gianluca Di Bella, a smart-contract researcher specializing in ...

We’re introducing passkey-encrypted chat backups, so it’s easier than ever before to encrypt your backups using your fingerprint, face, or screen lock code. WhatsApp was the first private messaging ...

Digital spaces offer both promise and peril for women and gender minorities. They can be empowering, providing access to resources, community, and care at a time when women’s rights and gender equity ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AI could speed up “Q-Day,” when quantum computers break today’s encryption—threatening crypto, cybersecurity, and global ...

I am having trouble decrypting a parquet file encrypted in the C++ Arrow library using PyArrow. In C++, I encrypt the file with one key and no metadata. However, I can't find an API in PyArrow to do ...

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, ...