You may not think much about encryption day to day, but it’s the reason the FBI can't easily get at the data on the iPhones that come into its possession; it also means if someone steals your phone, ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. FRANKFURT - A German security expert has raised the ire of the cell phone industry after he and a group of researchers posted ...

The release of a GSM codebook is a warning that cell phones are an easy and dangerous security gap without encryption. Recent code-cracking research has made it easy, fast and cheap for unauthorized ...

An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalysts. It is possible the flaw could still allow access to some ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Security researchers have cracked the encryption code used ...