WASHINGTON — The Department of Commerce rolled out a new U.S. encryption standard for the federal government on Tuesday (Dec. 4) in hopes that industry will also embrace it. The Advanced Encryption ...

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a widely adopted and symmetric encryption algorithm standard used while securing data. It is a cryptographic standard, which was established by the US National ...

History has shown that it is always necessary for security to evolve to meet the demands of new technology. Moore's Law may work wonders for computing horsepower, but it creates nightmares for ...

The government finally did something right. That seemed to be the common theme at the RSA Data Security Conference on Monday afternoon with encryption experts praising the US government's selection of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The mathematicians at IBM have been hard at work, with Big Blue claiming Thursday that it developed a new algorithm that should provide increased network security. Charanjit Jutla, a ...

Researchers have found a weakness in the AES algorithm used worldwide to protect internet banking, wireless communications, and data on hard disks. They managed to come up with a clever new attack ...

Security company Baffle has announced the release of a new solution for securing private data for use with generative AI. Baffle Data Protection for AI integrates with existing data pipelines and ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

If you're shopping around for a VPN, you may have come across providers who tout "military grade encryption", but what does ...

After a three-year worldwide competition, the U.S. Department of Commerce last week announced that an encryption algorithm from Belgium has been proposed as the new Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) ...