As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent.

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 ...

A glimpse of the future, the Yubikey 5Ci offers highly secured, encrypted account authentications that required better support by websites and apps, expected to come. Yubico’s new YubiKey 5Ci is the ...

Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.

Microsoft confirms it provides BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI under legal orders. Learn about the security implications ...

Encrypted key exchange is a protocol, or set of rules, that allows two parties sharing a common password to communicate over an insecure network without exposing that password. The protocol was ...

The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

Getting encryption right can be hard. But even basic mistakes continue to be made, as proven by Austrian researchers who claimed to have uncovered the same vulnerability in nine per cent of all ...

David S. writes asks about recovering a FileVault-encrypted drive. He says it was encrypted and then reformatted. Is it possible to recover any data from this drive since it was previously encrypted ...

BitTorrent has released a new version of its Sync peer-to-peer app, and its biggest feature is the encrypted folder. Any data you keep in one will be encrypted, whether you choose to place it on cloud ...