Facebook still pulls in over 2 billion daily active users, but the average post reach keeps dropping. The main keyword here ...

Tor replaces its older tor1 relay encryption with CGO to strengthen privacy, block tagging attacks, and modernize authentication across circuits.

gRPC stack currently supports configuring TLS cipher suites through the GRPC_SSL_CIPHER_SUITES environment variable. However, there is no mechanism to configure the TLS signature algorithms used by ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Trilium encrypts protected notes with AES-CBC-128. There is no reason for staying with AES-128 when AES-256 is more secure for minimal computation cost. Speaking of which, it would be much better to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

U.S. government information networks handling controlled unclassified and national security information are under continual cyber attack by sophisticated peer and near-peer adversaries. Evolving cyber ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

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, ...

Microsoft prepares for security in a world where our old codes are easily broken. Get familiar with these technologies now before they become necessary. Much of what we do to keep our online lives ...