A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

The FBI has reiterated its opposition to 'warrant-proof' end-to-end encryption, arguing it hampers investigations into serious crimes. In a new blog post, the agency called for 'responsibly managed ...

According to the latest Google research, it could take as few as 1,200 logical qubits for a quantum computer to break ...

A relatively new ransomware family is using a novel approach to hype the strength of the encryption used to scramble ...

At the same time, a March 2026 preprint from a Caltech–Berkeley–Oratomic collaboration explores what might be possible using ...

With growing focus on the existential threat quantum computing poses to some of the most crucial and widely used forms of ...

Whenever we talk about end-to-end encrypted data, we're usually talking about messaging apps like iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, and Google's RCS. But plenty of other data is encrypted to ensure ...

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, ...