Most industry analyst firms conclude that between 80-90 percent of network traffic is encrypted today. Jeff Costlow, CISO at ExtraHop, explains why this might not be a good thing. Strong encryption is ...

During World War II, the Allied powers intercepted huge volumes of radio communications being used by the Axis powers to coordinate military activity. Many intercepted messages had been encrypted ...

In Part 1 of my series on Transport Layer Security (TLS) decryption, I went over a few basics of encryption, discussed TLS 1.2, and concluded by outlining the improvements TLS 1.3 provided. In this ...

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election after an ...

If you’ve done any network programming or hacking, you’ve probably used Wireshark. If you haven’t, then you certainly should. Wireshark lets you capture and analyze data flowing over a network — think ...

Welcome to another week of What’s Next, your briefing on the intersection of technology and law. I’m Ben Hancock and this week I’m asking, when is decryption of data a “foregone conclusion,” and ...

UPDATE: Many readers are asking a valid question about what happens if someone is ordered to decrypt hardware but claims they forgot the passcode. Here is a link to our recent story on that topic. A ...

Federal prosecutors are urging a federal judge to demand a Wisconsin man immediately decrypt several hard drives they believe contain child pornography. The authorities have been litigating the ...