British authorities recently revealed that the Westminster Bridge attacker, who killed four people and injured scores of others, may have sent or received messages through the encrypted WhatsApp ...

Federal authorities say they can request a U.S. tech company build surveillance backdoors into their products without any kind of court order, according to statements from July released this weekend, ...

Cellphones may be helping to connect and organize the pro-democracy protesters massing in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria. But they're also offering a new method for authoritarians to track those ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Boston startup are joining efforts in a marathon to build uncrackable ...

It sounds like messaging app WhatsApp isn't backing down on its commitment to encryption. According to a report from Sky News, the British government asked the Facebook-owned messaging app to build a ...

In the wake of the Paris terror attacks, some politicians and intelligence officials began rallying for "back doors" into encrypted messaging apps. On Wednesday, FBI ...

The National Security Agency wants to build a futuristic super computer that can break most types of encryption, according to documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the Washington Post. No reason ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. “Security enhancements to the virtual world should not make us more vulnerable in the physical world,” they said in a letter to CEO Mark ...

Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s mass internet surveillance is driving development of a slew of new email tools aimed at providing end-to-end encryption to users, and it has boosted ...

It sounds like messaging app WhatsApp isn't backing down on its commitment to encryption. According to a report from Sky News, the British government asked the Facebook-owned messaging app to build a ...