WASHINGTON – Hundreds are facing charges after an elaborate, years-long sting in which the FBI secretly ran a phone encryption program that officials say criminals unwittingly used to facilitate drug ...

You may not think much about encryption day to day, but it’s the reason the FBI can't easily get at the data on the iPhones that come into its possession; it also means if someone steals your phone, ...

Your phone or tablet holds a lot of personal data about you and your life. Text messages, personal and business contacts, emails, credit card information, private photos and videos — all of these ...

I had just left a meeting at the Justice Department, and stopped at a nearby coffee shop with colleagues for a debrief and to gab. As I was gathering my things to leave, I reached for my phone to make ...

The encryption algorithm GEA-1 was implemented in mobile phones in the 1990s to encrypt data connections. Since then, it has been kept secret. Now, a research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), ...

Encryption may sound like a tech buzzword, but even if you’re not tech-savvy, encryption is probably a very important part of your life. More than likely, your bank, credit card companies, and even ...