encryption

Our study during World Cup indicates one in four networks are dangerous and you must take care to avoid substantial loss.

This is a short excerpt from what is said to be unearthed medieval manuscript, describing a way of keeping secrets. While we are not sure it’s authentic, the method described seems quite useful today.

Google is releasing a tool that ensures all data passing out of its Chrome browser is encrypted in transit, resolving the problem of relying on others’ crypto.

OpenSSL reported six new vulnerabilities just eight weeks after Heartbleed. Does it mean that OpenSSL is heading for a disaster, or is it on its way to healing?

Something very weird is going on with the popular free whole-disk encryption suite TrueCrypt. The story is still developing, but it does look like the suite ceases to exist right

Many Internet-connected smart home systems contain vulnerabilities that could expose the owners of those systems to physical and digital theft.

Top Apps to protect you from prying eyes, mischievous kids, thieves, natural disasters, forgetfulness and of course malware.

Today, regular instant messengers are hard to trust when it comes to privacy. There are, of course, safer alternatives, but are they able to substitute Skype and WhatsApp?

We put too much trust in the Internet. And we need to understand that security products and solutions should compliment a secure mindset.

Headlines dominated by just two stories this week: a seriously widespread crypto bug known as Heartbleed and Microsoft’s end of security support for Windows XP

Cryptographic hash functions are a ubiquitous tool in computing, used for everything from identity verification to malware detection to file protection.

There is a serious flaw called Heartbleed in OpenSSL encryption library that could expose user login credentials, communications content, an more

Sony Corp. underwent a large-scale fiasco in April 2011, when a security breach affected tens of millions of people. The intruders stole the personal data of many users along with

Strongly encrypted communications are secure and private communications (as long as there is no monkey-business going on in the way the encryption is implemented into communications software or protocols). Therefore,

Nowadays, quantum systems really do exist, with some of them reaching the stage of commercial sales. Quantum computers raise and answer new questions in the security field.

Google provides some pretty strong security controls like two-factor authentication in order to prevent hackers from hijacking your account and other controls that allow you to recover your account in

Computers, initially created for military cipher breaking, give everyone an almost perfect way to keep our secrets totally private – through encryption. For a long time strong encryption was only

If we really wanted to thoroughly discuss ‘HTTPS’ and Digital Certificates, then we’d need to talk about cryptography, but don’t worry, because we’re going to go ahead and spare you

The first encryption methods appeared almost immediately after the emergence of writing. Ancient masters of cryptography deliberately missed out letters or substituted them with other symbols in their messages to