The incident instantly ignited fiery criticism over the Trump administration’s security practices. Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote on Threads that “from an operational security ...

After working for some time on decoding mysterious encrypted letters, the codebreakers realize that the ciphered messages might be written by Mary Stuart, the Queen of Scots herself, during a critical ...

Putting sensitive data in email messages or cloud storage should give you the heebie-jeebies, but a good dose of cryptography can give you peace of mind. Pretty Good ...

It’s all too easy to neglect data security, especially for a small business. While bigger organizations have IT departments, service contracts, and enterprise hardware, smaller companies frequently ...

A new "encrypted spelling test" that replaces letters with numbers is stumping the internet. There are no trick questions, but it might make your brain hurt a little.

In early 2023, three amateur codebreakers announced they had successfully decoded the secret correspondence of one of the most tragic characters in European history: Mary, Queen of Scots. 57 encrypted ...

Google, Apple, Microsoft, WhatsApp and numerous other companies and organizations have publicly opposed a proposal by the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ to open up encrypted communication to the ...

Text messaging has been around since the dawn of cellular technology, and sparked its own unique language. But it’s time to put sending regular SMS messages out to pasture. If you have an iPhone, ...

In today's world, encryption plays a vital role in all aspects of data protection and cybersecurity, ensuring that ...

Communications by important people over the past thousands of years have been regularly encrypted, making the breaking of this encryption both an essential and also a fascinating historical field. One ...