Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

Whether written invisibly with lemon juice or encrypted with complex math, secret messages are passed on through a myriad of bizarre and convoluted ways. A team of engineers from China is introducing ...

That computer you carry round in your pocket is a treasure trove of data, ripe for the hacker to swoop in and steal your identity. Fortunately, today’s smartphones come with encryption by default, ...

The videoconferencing company Zoom has seen its star rise exponentially during the Covid-19 pandemic, as friends and coworkers increasingly turn to the service for a communication lifeline. With this ...

The rapid rise in cybercrime, along with the well-documented costs to enterprises that manage the fallout of data breaches, has pushed the issue of network data security to the forefront as a ...

(Nanowerk News) To guarantee high data security, encryption must be unbreakable while the data remains rapidly and easily readable. A novel strategy for optical encryption/decryption of information ...

Encrypting data before storing on third-party servers. Also called "zero-knowledge encryption," zero-access encryption ensures that a user's data stored on OneDrive, Google Drive or other cloud ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Hydrogels are crosslinked polymer networks that can absorb huge volumes of water. In recent years, significant progress has been made with so-called "stimuli-responsive" hydrogels ...

A researcher has released a tool to bypass Google's new App-Bound encryption cookie-theft defenses and extract saved credentials from the Chrome web browser. The tool, named ...

The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK). This FEK is in return encrypted with a public or a private key algorithm like RSA and stored with the ...