Quantum computing represents a major threat to encryption, and the inflection point may be less than five years away.

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

A joint House hearing on Wednesday will examine how AI and quantum computing will impact current cybersecurity.

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years ...

As cybercriminals gain access to increasingly more computing power capable of breaking existing encryption algorithms in ...

Microsoft will disable RC4 by default in Windows Kerberos, pushing organizations to uncover and eliminate longstanding ...

Microsoft will soon start "accelerating" input/output (I/O) operations for BitLocker-encrypted volumes on PC systems with ...

There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, ...