Encryption can protect your data from crooks, but if you don't have a recovery key stored securely, it can also keep you out – permanently.

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

Intelligence agencies may be intercepting encrypted messages and storing them in the hope that they can eventually develop a practical quantum computer to crack them, a security researcher who has ...

A new study published in the journal AVS Quantum Science describes the necessary conditions. The research team created a tool to determine how big a quantum computer needs to be to solve two different ...

Security researcher Yohanes Nugroho has released a decryptor for the Linux variant of Akira ransomware, which utilizes GPU power to retrieve the decryption key and unlock files for free. Nugroho ...