The core advantage of quantum computing — the ability to compute for many possible outcomes at the same time and therefore crunch data much more quickly than classical computers — also creates a ...

The RSA agreed to incorporate a flawed encryption formula into a widely used security product in accordance with a secret $10 million NSA contract. The RSA Conference, the world’s largest computer ...

British officials renewed demands this week for stricter regulation of the software industry to prevent the online services they develop from becoming a harbor for terrorists. “We cannot allow this ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has approved a new, stronger data-encryption standard intended to replace an aging standard first adopted in 1977. The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is intended to ...

In response to the mind-numbing, never-ending reports of data breaches in the news, I am seeing a distinct move to data encryption as the latest best hope for information security. While encryption is ...

The Department of Homeland Security and federal agencies are in incident-response mode as they work to remove listening posts in software planted by suspected cyberspies. The unauthorized code can ...

Let’s begin with a statement that contradicts most texts on the subject: Tokenization is a form of encryption. Encryption is a process wherein a piece of data is replaced with a different piece of ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of Commerce rolled out a new U.S. encryption standard for the federal government on Tuesday (Dec. 4) in hopes that industry will also embrace it. The Advanced Encryption ...

As the people of this country, and much of the world, observe the year-end holidays, we can look back on 2013 as the year when any illusion of genuine democracy was dashed by the remarkable ...