You may not think much about encryption day to day, but it’s the reason the FBI can't easily get at the data on the iPhones that come into its possession; it also means if someone steals your phone, ...

An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalysts. It is possible the flaw could still allow access to some ...

While Windows Phone 6.x devices had problems connecting with consumers, something that Windows Phone 7 seems to be doing better already, they did have a useful function that Microsoft’s new phones do ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. FRANKFURT - A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Security researchers have cracked the encryption code used ...

The encryption algorithm GEA-1 was implemented in mobile phones in the 1990s to encrypt data connections. Since then, it has been kept secret. Now, a research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), ...

Privacy hawk Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is leading the charge to make sure phone traffic between House and Senate offices is encrypted. Privacy hawk Sen. Ron Wyden (D ...

Zoom has announced it is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities to Zoom Phone, with breakout rooms to be given the same level of encryption in the near future. Zoom Phone customers now ...