While Apple is neck deep in the courts fighting an FBI court order to unlock the iPhone, Amazon quietly drops support for device encryption from its Fire OS operating system. Fire OS is a customized ...

Microsoft adds new security, privacy, and compliance features to the Microsoft Teams chat and collaboration solution, including end-to-end encryption support for one-on-one voice calls. Microsoft ...

Have you heard of quantum computing? If not, imagine a computer more powerful than any you've ever experienced. Now, imagine how much faster that computer could crack passwords, hack into networks, ...

Earlier this month, video conferencing service Zoom halted the rollout of new features for 90 days as it commenced work on beefing up its security and privacy amid "Zoombombing" and other issues. A ...

Microsoft has announced it is adding new encryption support for its OneDrive cloud storage service and its Outlook.com email website, along with the opening of its first Transparency Center. For ...

Encrypted messaging is dangerous because it enables contacts among racists and extremists, argues the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in a recent feature. The piece, though, fails to demonstrate ...

Encryption is basically jumbling of your data in a format that is unreadable. So that, even if a hacker is able to fetch your data, they won’t be able to make sense of it. Device Encryption takes the ...

It's worth noting here that Amazon did actually file an amicus brief supporting Apple in its fight against the FBI. The company has also been very bullish in saying that its Amazon Echo products -- ...

Amazon has confirmed that version 5 of Fire OS for its Fire tablet removes support for device encryption. In a statement sent to TechCrunch the company said: “In the fall when we released Fire OS 5, ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is finally adding end-to-end encryption support to Microsoft Teams later ...