The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text version of their encrypted ...

There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

Kleopatra is the GnuPG front-end program for Windows as a part of Gpg4win. And it's driving me nuts. The Linux program has a simple clipboard, and this makes sense to me. You have text to encrypt, or ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

First, the bad news: the CyberVolk 2.x (aka VolkLocker) ransomware-as-a-service operation that launched in late summer. It's ...

You probably use encryption, in one form or another, every day. You might not know that you are, but you are. And my guess is that you don’t give it a second thought. Do you have a subscription based ...

Cybersecurity and privacy expert Peter Swire wrote 'From Real-Time Intercepts to Stored Records: Why Encryption Drives the Government to Seek Access to the Cloud.' The more we encrypt and lean on a ...