Where encryption was once the central aim of ransomware attacks, it has now been relegated to a supporting role, and data exfiltration has become the weapon of choice.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is warning major U.S. tech companies against yielding to foreign government demands that weaken data security, compromise encryption, or impose censorship on their ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be more ...

The UK has agreed to drop its mandate that Apple install a backdoor into the encrypted data stored on its devices, though it isn’t clear whether this is an overall change or simply a tweak to protect ...

The United Kingdom has dropped its push to require that tech giant Apple provide the country’s security officials with backdoor access to users’ encrypted iCloud backups, Director of National ...

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, ...

The data comes from a nationwide survey carried out by New York-based human-centric cybersecurity outfit Anagram, and its results couldn’t be more clear. Seventy-eight percent of respondents to the ...

With 19 EU member states backing it, the Chat Control proposal could mandate pre-encryption message scanning on apps like WhatsApp and Signal by October. A controversial European Union proposal dubbed ...

Malware isn't just trying to hide anymore—it's trying to belong. We're seeing code that talks like us, logs like us, even documents itself like a helpful teammate. Some threats now look more like ...

A court is to hear legal challenges against a secret order issued by the Home Office that requires Apple to give British law enforcement and intelligence agencies the ability to access users’ ...

The UK government had demanded that Apple provide it with backdoor access to its worldwide users’ data. The firm had later turned off its Advanced Data Protection plan because of the demand. However, ...