Modern cars are essentially software on wheels—“smart” collections of automotive systems, including entertainment, braking, power, locks, window controls, and so on. As the number of electronic ...

One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

Encryption is pushing its way into more corners of the enterprise. From database fields for customer credit cards or social security numbers, to laptop hard drives with proprietary data, more storage ...

Was recommended to check out AT by a professor, and have enjoyed the site thus far. I have a question, however, related to a paper I have to write (this won't be the substance of it, so no worries ...

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The virtual private network says it aims to keep encrypted communications captured today from being cracked in a fast-approaching post-quantum world. Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led ...

Encryption secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have found that most random number generators used for encryption keys are not truly random. They found that encryption keys are potentially ...

A team of researchers from Fox-IT and Riscure has put together a device using off-the-shelve electronic parts that deduces encryption keys using only electromagnetic emissions coming from a nearby ...

An unpatchable vulnerability has been discovered in Apple's M-series chips that allows attackers to extract secret encryption keys from Macs under certain conditions, according to a newly published ...

Encryption is a term that many of us have come across, but what does it mean? To put it simply, encryption is the encoding of information. Various online services use it to keep your data private and ...