Database encryption protects sensitive information by scrambling the data when it's stored, or as it has become popular to say, "is at rest." ...

Just as every company is now a technology company because you can't be in business without technology, every company is a data company - but most companies don't know about data or what to do with it.

This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook published an open letter addressed to the company's customers, though the document read more like a public address aimed at the government. Following the Dec. 2 home ...

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is a type of communication system that allows two parties to send and receive information or messages privately, while preventing others from eavesdropping on the ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The ongoing battle between the FBI and Apple over the government's demand that the Cupertino, Calif. company subvert the encryption on an iPhone associated with one of the San ...

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 ...

Although many encryption systems have been “cracked” or “broken” in recent years, the so-called strong cryptography systems used today are generally regarded as unbreakable.

Steve Inskeep talks to Matthew Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University, to find out what breaking into an iphone's encryption really means.