Australia is the latest country to seek ways to access information passed between smartphones via encrypted apps, information that might be relevant to criminal investigations and counterterrorism ...

For most people, breaking WhatsApp's and iMessage's security to let the government stop terrorists sounds like a reasonable idea. SEE ALSO: How the government can force WhatsApp to break its ...

Here we go again. UK Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said that end-to-end encryption in apps like WhatsApp is “completely unacceptable” and that there should be “no hiding place for terrorists”. Her ...

This is the fourth and final in a series of essays about a proposal by officials at Britain’s GCHQ about requiring encrypted communications platforms to be designed to secretly add an extra ...

So in our business we have various agencies that like to impose rules/regulations/etc on us. The newest one is all workstations must be whole disk encrypted (okay fine enough). Also all servers must ...

NSA director Admiral Michael Rogers has said that encryption is “foundational to the future” — and privacy shouldn’t be sacrificed for security. The statement is quite a contrast to the government’s ...

Welcome to Mossberg, a new weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.

LONDON — Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has waded into Britain's debate over encryption, calling any attempts to weaken the technology a "bad idea." Speaking to the BBC, the legendary tech ...

ANOTHER APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION — ‘DETECTIVE WORK’: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Thursday suggested an old-school approach to a modern problem — encryption. At a House Homeland ...

Companies are not embracing encryption as a way to protect sensitive data. According to Ponemon Institute’s 2005 National Encryption Survey, only 4.2% of companies responding to our survey say their ...