Cryptography is the go-to defense for cybersecurity, it’s essentially the strongbox of the computing era—and just like a strongbox it’s not designed to keep the contents perfectly safe from all ...

Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker is on the way with some future updates to Windows 11, but it'll require next-gen processors to ...

Microsoft has started rolling out hardware-accelerated BitLocker capabilities in Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025 ...

Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities that would allow an ...

Just a few weeks after the leak of the HDCP master keys was confirmed, a software implementation of the encryption scheme has been developed. The software implementation should be able to decrypt a ...

A vulnerability in iOS encryption could allow skilled attackers to intercept iMessages and decrypt iCloud photos. Researchers told The Washington Post the flaw could be exploited “to decrypt photos ...

As encryption becomes increasingly popular, decryption keys are growing into highly valuable targets for hackers who want to break into even the most heavily protected data. Now, according to new ...

Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening -- yes, with a microphone-- to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The ...

After the leak of the HDCP master keys earlier in the month, a couple of developers have constructed a software HDCP decryption program. The usefulness isn't immediately clear, however: practical HDCP ...