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A prominent US senator has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft for “gross cybersecurity ...

Encryption, for security purposes, is also known as a cipher. It is a mathematical algorithm that hides information or makes it secret. Data that is not encrypted is called plain text, while encrypted ...

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Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a ...

eBay did not enjoy its finest hour responding to and communicating about a breach of its password database. As is the case with most high-profile data breaches, despite an initial disclosure of ...

Here's a security update to haunt your dreams, and to make the FBI's quest for un-exploitable cryptographic backdoors look all the more absurd: a team of Israeli researchers has now shown that the ...

The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco revealed earlier this week. The new ...