At its core the PCI Data Security Standard is nothing more than a series of guidelines that constitute security best practices. But companies that institute programs to better protect cardholder data ...

Several popular messaging apps, including Messenger, Signal, Telegram and WhatsApp, use end-to-end encryption. Open Rights Group/Flickr, CC BY-SA Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the ...

In our last episode of Private I, I explained the basics of public-key (PK) cryptography, a way to scramble messages in a way that only someone possessing a particular key can decrypt, without that ...

The data center transformation to software-defined technologies started with virtualization of compute resources, and today has emerged to hyper-convergence of compute/storage. The use of encryption ...

Still responding to the National Security Agency surveillance revelations, Google is reportedly preparing to help users beef up Gmail security with end-to-end ...

More documents from former security contractor Edward Snowden show that the National Security Agency has been secretly working to gain a back door into all encryption technologies, The New York Times ...

If we’ve learned anything from the last few years, it’s that given the opportunity to snoop on or scarf up our data or our metadata, criminals, business, and governments have a lot in common. They may ...

Q. What are my options to protect my e-mail from snooping? A. This question is a two-parter. If you want to protect your e-mail while it’s making its way across the Internet, you may not have to do ...