Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum to federal agencies on Wednesday outlining the steps they need to take to ...

A new ransomware operation named ‘Prinz Eugen’ prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. An investigation from Threatdown, the former corporate ...

It's an aggressive move that'll effectively force operators of critical French infrastructure to move away from traditional cryptographic systems. Reading time 3 minutes Sometime in the future, a ...

PARIS, June 16 (Reuters) - France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government ...

One of WhatsApp’s claims to fame is its end-to-end encryption (EE2E)—it implemented this most secure version of encryption early on, long before most people thought about the privacy of their messages ...

iOS 26.5 is now available to everyone after six weeks of beta testing. The update adds fresh wallpapers, new features to Apple Maps, and more. Perhaps most notably, iOS 26.5 adds support for ...

The dreaded Q-day could arrive sooner than expected, and when it does, experts say we need to be ready. Reading time 8 minutes In 1994, American mathematician Peter Shor developed a quantum algorithm ...

Meta will disable end-to-end encryption on Instagram starting May 8, 2026. This allows the company to potentially access message content for AI training and advertising. Currently, Signal remains the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Current quantum computers don’t ...

A research paper from Caltech and quantum startup Oratomic found that the cryptography protecting bitcoin and ether wallets could be broken with as few as 10,000 physical qubits, far below earlier ...

During the iOS 26.4 beta cycle, Apple let users test out RCS messaging with end-to-end encryption (E2EE). From the very first beta though, Apple was clear that E2EE for RCS was only being tested in ...

It may have escaped notice for many, but Instagram has employed end-to-end encryption for its messaging since 2023. It won’t for much longer. Meta has confirmed that on May 8, end-to-end encryption ...