COMMENTARY--I can imagine a world where the computers needed no security. Where there were no passwords, no security checks, and no firewalls. Where the computers communicated freely and shared ...

Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...

Time and time again we hear about big companies (*cough*eBay*cough*) having serious security breaches, which result in users’ private information being exposed. When a company says it has suffered an ...

The challenge of accelerating cryptographic functions, such as encryption and decryption, at high data rates is no longer limited to speeding algorithm processing. Establishing and managing secure ...

Bitcoin depends on encryption to remain secure. This encryption protects transactions, wallets, and user funds. If the ...

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The decision follows years of documented abuse, repeated warnings from security ...

(Bloomberg) — LastPass, a password management service, announced on Thursday that hackers stole encrypted copies of customer passwords and other sensitive data such as billing addresses, phone numbers ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...