*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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here we go again? FBI uses Texas shooting to revive phone encryption debate The FBI's Christopher Combs, speaking at a news conference in Texas today, said law enforcement has so far not been able to ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom is to launch an app for smartphones that encrypts voice and text messages and will be available to all its users. Consumer privacy fears have sparked intense ...

If you’re worried about your iPhone’s security after the Justice Department announced it had broken into yet another terrorist’s cell phone, don’t panic. The FBI and its hacking prowess probably ...