For the first time, the RSA Conference has a strict anti-drone policy — a prohibition Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson might have unwittingly violated in his ...

Last month, President Barack Obama came out in favor of law enforcement having access to encrypted communications in smartphones, instant messaging applications and other digital communication devices ...

Conference season is here again and this year’s Aspen Security Forum hosted a session regarding the proverbial public-private partnership in cyberspace. During the hour-long meeting former Secretary ...

Cryptography experts at the RSA security conference on Tuesday picked holes in U.S. plans to require that law enforcers be given a way to break encryption to exercise lawful intercept rights. U.S.

The FBI is developing software capable of inserting a computer virus onto a suspect’s machine and obtaining encryption keys, a source familiar with the project told MSNBC.com. The software, known as ...

As encryption becomes more commonplace in our devices, the job of law enforcement is becoming increasingly difficult. The central question surrounding this "Crypto War" is whether or not there is a ...

Computing's opposition to government's planned regulation of the use of encryption was strongly supported at this week's first electronic commerce hearing in the House of Commons. The CBI and ...