Encryption may sound like a digital buzzword, but even if you’re not tech-savvy, encryption is a very important part of your life. More than likely, your bank, credit card companies—and even some ...

Recent news has shone a spotlight on secure communications. Late last year, China-linked threat actors Salt Typhoon and Liminal Panda compromised telecommunications and Internet-service providers, ...

The company claims the new communication feature is end-to-end encrypted, meaning messages exchanged on it can only be read by the sender and their receiver, and — in theory — no one else, including X ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. The FBI has confirmed it wants “lawful access” to fully encrypted ...

When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security ...

Jim Kohlenberger is co-chair of Trusted Future and an innovation policy leader who has served as a policy advisor to two U.S. Presidents. The Washington Post reported in February that the U.K.

Encrypted messengers are having a second wave. Apps like WhatsApp, iMessage and Signal made end-to-end encryption (E2EE) a default expectation. But most still hinge on phone numbers, centralized ...