The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or ...

OTTAWA—Apple and Google warned Canadian lawmakers that they risk putting their citizens’ privacy and security at risk under a government proposal to give police access to information on their digital ...

Discord just completed something it started back in 2023, and while the result is genuinely impressive, there’s a big asterisk in place. As of early March 2026, every standard voice and video call on ...

If you downloaded iOS 26.5, your device can now access the secure messaging protocol as long as your carrier supports it. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast ...

New Paubox research finds healthcare IT leaders confident in their defenses while encryption gaps drive breaches across the industry. Healthcare IT leaders are giving themselves top marks on email ...

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...

Computer scientists say they've developed a new encryption method designed to defend sensitive data from one of the biggest looming threats in cybersecurity: quantum computers powerful enough to crack ...

Cloudflare Inc. today announced that it’s accelerating its post-quantum security roadmap and is now aiming to make its entire platform fully post-quantum-secure by 2029, including authentication ...

Powerful quantum computers may be closer than scientists thought. To unleash the technology’s full power, scientists have long thought that quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits, ...

Srinivas Shekar, Founder and CEO, Pantherun Technologies. This growth in illicit activity has pushed encryption to the center of debates about national security, law enforcement and civil liberties.

The takeaway: A concept that once sounded like science fiction is now being recognized as essential to the survival of the digital world. This week, the Association for Computing Machinery awarded the ...

In the 1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard created a new kind of encryption that would be impregnable. By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the ...