Home Secretary Amber Rudd has criticised WhatsApp’s use of encryption to protects its users’ communications, in the wake of the Westminster terror attack. It has ...

Amber Rudd has called for police and intelligence agencies to be given access to encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp, sparking a row over civil liberties. In the wake of the Westminster ...

To a lot of us, encryption doesn't mean much. We might think of it in the context of Second World War codebreaking or maths puzzles. But it plays a far bigger practical role in our lives - encryption ...

In today’s fast-changing world of business regulations and data security, many leaders face privacy and protection challenges they aren’t fully prepared to handle. Most understand the basics of ...

Encryption is used absolutely everywhere, and for many, there are a lot of burning questions. How does encryption work? What makes a ‘good’ encryption technology? How does it secure your data? These ...

Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this means or how it helps keep your data safe. Essentially, VPNs use encryption to ...

A battle between national security and privacy is brewing. Governments and secret services are asking encrypted messaging services such as WhatsApp to allow them access to users’ data. Most recently, ...

An “October surprise” occurred in 2024, but it had nothing to do with the presidential election. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI revealed that a group of Chinese cyber ...

A chat app called ' White Noise ' has been released that combines the decentralized SNS protocol ' Nostr ' with advanced encryption to allow users to exchange messages while maintaining privacy and ...