This document shows how Maxim’s DS1963S SHA iButton® can be used with small microcontrollers to provide strong encryption and authentication of control and status messages, telemetry, or sensitive ...

Android smartphones, like other phones, send text messages in plain text. The text messages can be intercepted and read on the network. The text messages could also be read by anyone with access to ...

Encryption and user privacy never seems far away from the news headlines these days, as the debate rages on about the extent to which governments and police forces should be able to snoop on what ...

The importance of end-to-end encryption of digital messages is getting new attention with the announcement that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook will partly add the feature to its Messenger product now, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There have been a flurry of headlines in the last two days, after the ...

Microsoft is bringing message encryption to Office 365. The system will allow email to be automatically encrypted, even when sent to non-Office 365 users. So, you can use the protection with anyone, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. In the world of individual privacy and data security, this could be ...

WATCH: Home Secretary Amber Rudd wants harmful content to be auto-blocked The major technology companies must step up their fight against extremism or face new laws, the home secretary has told the ...

Microsoft has confirmed a known issue that prevents recipients from opening encrypted emails in classic Outlook.

This story was originally published by Inside Science News Service. (ISNS) -- Scientists are pushing to create a space-based quantum communications network that could enable impossible-to-monitor ...