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Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...

Hackers have crossed a new frontier by devising sophisticated ways to steal large quantities of personal identification numbers, or PINs, protecting credit and debit cards. The attacks involve ...

[Kuba Tyszko] like many of us, has been hacking things from a young age. An early attempt at hacking around with grandpa’s tractor might have been swiftly quashed by his father, but likely this was ...

Among the evidence gathered against a notorious Serbian crime gang rounded up in February were gruesome photos sent via an encrypted messaging app popular with drug smugglers. The downfall of Sky ECC ...

Police in the Netherlands and Belgium have shut down an encrypted messaging app and arrested criminals after successfully cracking the encryption used by the app. The app in question goes by the name ...