As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...

For counsel advising clients in this space, the essential task is to help decision-makers see beyond moral vocabulary to operational consequence, and to weigh short- and long-term risks in a dynamic, ...

There has been a significant rise in ransomware campaigns which do not rely on encryption as cybercriminal extortion groups shift their operations. An increasing number of cybercriminals are relying ...

The tension between the rights of individuals to a private life and increasing demands from states to gain access to people’s private data increased in 2025. During the year, Computer Weekly was the ...

Abstract: CT images provide medical practitioners with a scientific and intuitive rationale for the diagnosis of clinical diseases. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) and telemedicine facilitate ...

About time: Microsoft introduced support for the RC4 stream cipher in Windows 2000 as the default authentication algorithm for the Active Directory services. The system has been insecure for even ...

Microsoft is killing off an obsolete and vulnerable encryption cipher that Windows has supported by default for 26 years following more than a decade of devastating hacks that exploited it and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Updated November 25 with a new warning from America’s Cyber ...

Bitcoin’s long-term design came under renewed scrutiny on Friday after VanEck CEO Jan van Eck questioned whether the network provides sufficient encryption and privacy during an appearance on CNBC’s ...

The encryption protecting communications against criminal and nation-state snooping is under threat. As private industry and governments get closer to building useful quantum computers, the algorithms ...