The strength of Apple’s revised encryption scheme in iOS 8 hinges on users choosing a strong passcode or password, which they rarely do, according to a Princeton University fellow. Apple beefed up the ...

ElcomSoft, a Russian computer security firm that specializes in cracking passwords and circumventing encrypted systems, has successfully broken iOS 4's hardware encryption. In around 20 minutes, the ...

A new instant messaging application for the iPhone uses an advanced, “post quantum” encryption scheme to scramble one-on-one chats. It’s intended as a bullet-proof secure alternative to WhatsApp’s ...

The password encryption algorithm used in some recent versions of the Cisco IOS operating system is weaker than the algorithm it was designed to replace, Cisco revealed earlier this week. The new ...