The technology community has a definition of an encryption back door. The government has its own. A judge’s order Tuesday night compelling Apple to assist law enforcement officials in unlocking the ...

A formula used to turn ordinary data, or "plaintext," into a secret coded message known as "ciphertext." The ciphertext can reside in storage or travel over unsecure networks without its contents ...

A method built into an encryption system that is used to decrypt the data in an emergency. The encryption backdoor is theoretically only available to legitimate governments. Nevertheless, backdoors ...

This article appears in the Aug. 27, 2009, edition of ISO&Agent Weekly. As card-security breaches continue to hamper the payments industry, the parties involved in the transaction process are ...

Today, threat actors are quietly collecting data, waiting for the day when that information can be cracked with future ...