Encryption, VPN, and secure internet connection. How they change internet usage, increase online security and privacy, and protect user data.

This is the big one: New documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA and its British equivalent, GCHQ (pictured above), have cracked VPNs, SSL, and TLS -- the encryption technologies that ...

The Internet Society says perceptions around data encryption need to change in order to help build a stronger global digital economy. The organization, which aims to ensure the internet “stays open”, ...

The National Security Agency has the keys to most Internet encryption methods and it has gotten them by using supercomputers to break them and by enlisting the help of private IT companies, The New ...

The National Security Agency is winning its long-running secret war on encryption, using supercomputers, technical trickery, court orders and behind-the-scenes persuasion to undermine the major tools ...

Australia's push to enact laws that would allow its law-enforcement agencies to compel companies help them break their own encryption represent an existential threat to the internet's security and ...

Google, the most widely used Web browser in the world, thinks a majority of state and local government websites aren’t doing enough to protect the people visiting them. And starting in July, that ...

Internet-connected gadgets like light bulbs and fitness trackers are notorious for poor security. That's partly because they’re often made cheaply and with haste, which leads to careless mistakes and ...

The Internet encryption protocol TLS – short for Transport Layer Security – is being fundamentally modified. Involved in attacks, researchers have contributed to revealing security gaps in the ...

Thanks to the internet, a wealth of information is at our fingertips – although the flipside is that sensitive data is often vulnerable to eavesdropping and theft. Quantum encryption can make that ...

TLS was developed in 1999 as an improvement on Secure Socket Layer (SSL) data encryption. Though SSL 3.0 is still used, TLS version 1.0 is supported by most commonly used browsers. However, it was ...

Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it. Earlier this week the encryption app Signal, already a favorite within ...