It's not just petty criminals after your iPhone, it might one day also be the feds. And they won't go to Apple, they'll come straight to you. Since the introduction of iOS 8 almost a year ago, Apple ...

Here's how to check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol, how to enable it and when Apple could bring end-to-end ...

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, ...

Dan Graziano is an associate editor for CNET. His work has appeared on BGR, Fox News, Fox Business, and Yahoo News, among other publications. When he isn't tinkering with the latest gadgets and gizmos ...

Apple's Advanced Data Protection security features have been available for over two years now. It adds end-to-end encryption to various Apple apps on iCloud backup. With the UK government trying to ...

Encrypted text messages may finally reach iPhone users with iOS 26. Code in the beta version of iOS 26 reveals strings for RCS encryption. With encryption, texts between iOS and Android will be ...

ElcomSoft, a Russian computer security firm that specializes in cracking passwords and circumventing encrypted systems, has successfully broken iOS 4's hardware encryption. In around 20 minutes, the ...

The bad news is, if the attacker -- the government-- also has access to your installation of iTunes, the encryption can cracked almost instantaneously. But how did ElcomSoft crack Apple's AES-256 ...