A recently released tool that allegedly was designed to help al-Qaeda supporters encrypt their Internet-based communications is a well-written and easily portable piece of code, according to a ...

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If you want to keep your business’s data safe, encryption is essential. By encrypting files directly, you ensure that they can’t be opened without a password — protecting the files from hackers and ...

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A joint U.S. and Canadian organization that certifies encryption tools for use by federal government agencies has suspended its validation of OpenSSL cryptographic technology for the second time in ...

Google is asking developers to take over its effort to make end-to-end email encryption more user-friendly, raising questions over whether it’ll ever become an official feature in the company’s ...

An encryption tool co-created by a University of Cincinnati math professor will soon safeguard the telecommunications, online retail and banking and other digital systems we use every day. The ...

A Website frequented by al Qaeda supporters has released an upgrade to an encryption software tool for Islamic militants to communicate more privately and securely over the Internet -- with a stronger ...

MongoDB Inc. today introduced new features that will enable enterprises to query their data without decrypting it and carry out large-scale analytics projects more easily. The features were announced ...

Apple is stripping Brits of its strongest data security tool in an unprecedented move for the privacy advocate, bowing to government demands for access to user data. Advanced Data Protection (ADP) is ...

The country's communications and IT minister says the government has a forensics tool that can handle smartphones, including Apple's. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...

Is encryption "overrated" as a data-security tool? Only if your company has a death wish.Cleversafe is a commercial open-source vendor that employs a "dispersed storage" architecture to protect ...