Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. There have been a flurry of headlines in the last two days, after the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. The fight between the providers of encrypted messaging platforms and ...

The importance of end-to-end encryption of digital messages is getting new attention with the announcement that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook will partly add the feature to its Messenger product now, ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...

I once co-wrote a book on enterprise email where I likened email encryption to a “sucking chest wound.” That was in 1997, when you had to do all the encryption key management on your own, a daunting ...

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) has detected vulnerabilities in text message encryption on smartphones using KT's network and notified both the telecom company and the government, sources said ...

Short Message Service (SMS) has been a staple of text messaging since the flip phone, but it may be time to let it evolve. SMS was created in 1992, back when cellphones could be mistaken for bricks.

Learn how to protect the information handled by your .NET applications by encrypting and decrypting the data using either a single key or a public/private key pair. Encryption transforms data into a ...

You may see this error because the Microsoft 365 encryption service cannot verify your identity or check if you have permission to view the message. This is not ...