Security researchers have devised a method of defeating AES-256bit encryption in as little as five minutes, and most importantly, you don’t need an expensive supercomputer to do it. The technique ...

In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds — Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software.

Jennifer Seberry has received funding from the ARC. It was announced overnight that cryptography researchers have found a “vulnerability” in the encryption scheme used in the vast majority of secure ...

Amongst the various high rollers who read Engadget -- defense industry big wigs, international businessmen, and the like -- security is a major concern, and over the last couple years we've seen quite ...

You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

In this techno world, data protection demands the utmost attention. The internet is totally susceptible to incidents of Ransomware. Cybercrime is on a constant rise, and this uses the internet for ...

Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...