In 2003, 55 million people lost power across the US and Canada because of a software bug and a failure to communicate. Nobody attacked anything. And more than two decades later, the same ...

Cryptography is one of the most important tools businesses use to secure the systems that hold their most important data assets. As the amount of data organizations are collecting increases, and ...

Post-quantum cryptography is moving from a future security concern to a practical planning issue for organizations. Quantum computers powerful enough to break widely used public-key encryption aren’t ...

Remember Nokia? Back before smartphones, many of us carried Nokia's nearly indestructible cell phones. They no longer make phones, but don't count Nokia out. Ever since the company was founded in 1865 ...

Entropy is a term used for the statistical uncertainty of a piece of data, one example of which are the randomly generated numbers that are used in cryptographic keys, and that are hard to crack to ...

The quest for unbreakable encryption may have finally succeeded. A team of researchers has created a tool capable of making any program impervious to attacks. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Decentralized Identifiers, or DIDs, are user-controlled identifiers that let people share only the necessary information rather than all their personal data. Users ...

The leader of the regulator's Crypto Task Force said privacy-enhancing technologies can strengthen investor protection and urged regulators not to treat them with suspicion. US Securities and Exchange ...