The increasing amount of data we’re all generating is everywhere: in smartphones, laptops, thumb drives, and dozens of online services. How can we secure all of them against unwarranted access? We ...

Any data stored on businesses’ systems is an asset but it’s also a liability. Stored on nearly every computer and/or server across a variety of industries, data is not just vulnerable in the event of ...

There's many reasons to password-protect -- or encrypt -- one's digital data. Foremost among them is to protect it during a security breach. Another top reason is to keep the government out of your ...

Microsoft has tried on a few occasions to use proprietary encryption algorithms rather than rely on industry-standard algorithms. The theory was that a closed-source proprietary algorithm was that ...

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...

Encrypting data in today's day and age is pretty important if you want to keep things secret without the threat of someone else viewing things such as passwords, personably identifiable information or ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Cloud computing services have ...

Encryption is one of the best ways to prevent the type of terrible headaches that many high-profile companies have experienced with stolen data. Even if experienced hackers are able to penetrate a ...

Ericsson and Telstra have announced achieving the encryption of data while in transit over a 100Gbps link between Australia and the United States by using telecommunications equipment and software ...