Lava lamps aren't just psychedelic decor. One major internet company uses them to help generate the randomness behind secure encryption keys.

Every time you send a text, pay for groceries with your phone, or use your health site, you are relying on encryption.

As happens from time to time, somebody has spotted a feature in Windows 10 that isn’t actually new and has largely denounced it as a great privacy violation. The Intercept has written that if you have ...

After a multi-year competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected a suite of algorithms for standardization. For key exchange, the primary choice is the ...

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 ...

Karen Scarfone is the principal consultant for Scarfone Cybersecurity. She provides cybersecurity publication consulting services to organizations and was formerly a senior computer scientist for the ...

One of the many issues that keeps CISOs up at night is the realization that no matter how robust and comprehensive their cybersecurity is, their IT systems are likely to be breached at some point.

Israel-based researchers said they’ve developed a cheaper and faster method to pull the encryption keys stored on a computer using an unlikely accomplice: pita bread. The new study builds on research ...