In a move that aligns with a broader regional shift, the Berkeley Police Department (BPD) has requested the City Council's approval to encrypt all of its radio communications. This request comes after ...

The government has reignited a row with Apple by issuing an order requiring the technology company to provide warranted access to encrypted data stored by British users on the supplier’s iCloud ...

Portable storage—USB drives, external HDDs, and memory cards—remains the go-to for transferring and backing up data. But these devices are also among the easiest to lose, making encryption and ...

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...

Abstract: Protecting the security of optical network is a major worldwide challenge. The conventional schemes for securing communications are based on cryptography at the MAC layer and its higher ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

NordLocker is an encryption tool from the makers of NordVPN, offering a modern solution for file protection. It creates secure vaults in which you can drag and drop files to encrypt them. NordLocker ...

Despite recent efforts by Colorado lawmakers to limit the use of encrypted communications by police agencies, the state has not banned the practice. State legislation introduced in 2018 and 2019 ...

New research shows that RSA-2048 encryption could be cracked using a one-million-qubit system by 2030, 20x faster than previous estimates. Here’s what it means for enterprise security. A quantum ...

The plan for civilian police scanners to go dark pushed a host to shut down his popular breaking news feed. EVERETT — As a young child, Daron Johnson listened to his dad’s police scanners. In his ...

The Montgomery County police department is moving forward with plans to encrypt all radio channels, including dispatch, within the next 60 to 90 days, Assistant Chief Darren Francke of the ...