SSL is becoming increasingly important to the maintenance of private communications. Intelligence agencies' ability to tap communications links (such as GCHQ's Tempora program, and the NSA's ...

The move should make it a bit tougher for interested parties to make any use of the data they've collected on Twitter users' activities. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products ...

Twitter announced that it has implemented Perfect Forward Secrecy for Twitter.com as well as its API and mobile sites. Twitter took another step toward not only securing the privacy of its users’ ...

With the scope of the National Security Agency seemingly expanding with every new revelation, Web services are rushing to implement security measures that will keep both hackers and nosy government ...

A security researcher has developed a technique that could significantly improve the secrecy of text messages sent in near real time on iPhones. The technique, which will debut in September in an iOS ...

Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you wanted to spy on people using Microsoft’s outlook.com website. First, you would need to capture requests to the site along with the returned web pages. But ...

Demand for encryption apps has increased dramatically ever since the exposure of massive internet surveillance programs run by US and UK intelligence agencies. Now Facebook is reportedly moving to ...

“Forward secrecy requires that the private keys for a connection are not kept in persistent storage” explains Google Security Team member Adam Langley. “An adversary that breaks a single key will no ...

Encryption keeps your secrets, until it doesn’t. When you use an encryption tool like the venerable software PGP, for instance, your most sensitive communications are only as secure as a single, ...

Revelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance abilities have highlighted shortcomings in many Internet companies' security practices that can expose users' confidential communications ...