Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody else, and as long as they’re the only one that knows a secret little thing, ...

As a devastating wildfire burned through a Maui town, killing more than 100 people, emergency management employees traded dozens of text messages, creating a record that would later help investigators ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In an era where data breaches and digital surveillance dominate ...

You follow this story because it shows how a private conversation can become a public tragedy. Court records say a 39-year-old man communicated with a 17-year-old on encrypted platforms for about a ...

Recent news has shone a spotlight on secure communications. Late last year, China-linked threat actors Salt Typhoon and Liminal Panda compromised telecommunications and Internet-service providers, ...

This gap between perception and reality is now playing out in real-world incidents, with governments increasing restrictions ...

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