For more than 25 years, a technology used for critical data and voice radio communications around the world has been shrouded in secrecy to prevent anyone from closely scrutinizing its security ...

The Oakland Police Department's plans to begin encrypting its radio transmissions is drawing public scrutiny due to concerns over transparency in the department. Police radios allow for communication ...

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by critical infrastructure–as well as police, intelligence agencies, ...

Encryption secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those ...