At its core the PCI Data Security Standard is nothing more than a series of guidelines that constitute security best practices. But companies that institute programs to better protect cardholder data ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several popular messaging apps, including Messenger, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, use end-to-end encryption. Open Rights ...

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The data center transformation to software-defined technologies started with virtualization of compute resources, and today has emerged to hyper-convergence of compute/storage. The use of encryption ...

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

Q. What are my options to protect my e-mail from snooping? A. This question is a two-parter. If you want to protect your e-mail while it’s making its way across the Internet, you may not have to do ...

Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of ...

More documents from former security contractor Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency has been secretly working to gain a back door into all encryption technologies, The New York Times ...

China isn't known for respecting privacy, but it's readying legislation that will address it all the same. The country has passed a law that will regulate cryptography in the country for both ...