Internet-connected gadgets like light bulbs and fitness trackers are notorious for poor security. That's partly because they’re often made cheaply and with haste, which leads to careless mistakes and ...

VPNs, or virtual private networks, continue to be used by millions of people as a way of masking their internet activity by encrypting their location and web traffic. But on the modern internet, most ...

Australia's push to enact laws that would allow its law-enforcement agencies to compel companies help them break their own encryption represent an existential threat to the internet's security and ...

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways ...

The UK government has once again raised the issue of online surveillance and internet regulation. But it's unclear exactly what the Conservatives want to do, while cybersecurity experts accuse the ...

Last night’s Republican debate is over, and we’re now a safe enough distance to look back. The debate was nominally focused on national security, which means we heard discussion on shutting down the ...

When Facebook opened its Internet.org platform to developers back in May, it came with a big caveat: every service running on the platform had to transmit its data in the clear, without encryption.

When midnight strikes on Jan. 1, 2016, a new Internet security standard goes into effect. The cryptographic hashing algorithm that encrypts websites to help keep them secure will be updated. While ...

The Internet Society says perceptions around data encryption need to change in order to help build a stronger global digital economy. The organization, which aims to ensure the internet “stays open”, ...

LONDON - NOVEMBER 01: Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia speaks during the opening session at the London Cyberspace Conference on November 01, 2011 in London, England. The conference, which is being ...

Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it. Earlier this week the encryption app Signal, already a favorite within ...

Although the Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 protocol, designed to make network connections more secure, was defined in 2008, a security expert at Black Hat Europe this week in Amsterdam said it ...