Mobile apps have replaced texting. Cloud storage have replaced pen drives. Hardly anything exists in the offline mode. Everything is online, interconnected and also increasingly prone to security ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an interconnected world where data breaches and privacy concerns have become all too common, a prominent research entity in Japan is spearheading a transformation of the data security landscape.

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...

In this Internet age, nothing is really secure and one of the primary concerns of most of the users is data security. We are always trying to find new ways to secure our data, whether it’s just ...

A long-standing Signal encryption key vulnerability in the company’s desktop apps is finally being fixed. The fix will fully secure the Mac app, but the company will only be able to offer a compromise ...