The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies has gone in this eighteenth edition to engineers Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen for designing the ...

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, ...

Encryption secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Arizona Department of Economic Security (DES) has confirmed it is laying off approximately 5% of its workforce due to federal budget cuts. DES officials confirmed first to ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...

The spotlight on encrypted apps is also a reminder of the complex debate pitting government interests against individual liberties. Governments desire to monitor everyday communications for law ...

Gmail will officially cease support for the Triple Data Encryption Standard (3DES) for all incoming SMTP connections on May 30, 2025, a move Google describes as vital for bolstering user security ...

The Facebook Messenger update means only the sender and recipient can read or listen to messages and calls. Users can choose to back up messages with a six-digit PIN, or store a virtual key in their ...

In the Monday edition of the Boston Globe, 2018 Boston Marathon champion Des Linden announced that she would be retiring from professional marathoning after running today’s race. She addressed the ...