Mathematics has always been at the core of securing information. From online banking to government communications, modern ...

This requires an algorithm: students are taught to stack one number atop another and multiply each digit of the bottom number ...

For decades, Elizebeth Smith Friedman worked in near-total secrecy, cracking codes that shaped the outcome of two world wars.

A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U ...

Organizations, and possibly ATMs, are at risk of compromise, thanks to holes in a Microsoft BitLocker security wrapper.

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.