In the indictment that led to the expulsion of ten Russian spies from the U.S. in the summer of 2010, the FBI said that it gained access to their communications after surreptitiously entering one of ...

Getting your head around public key encryption isn’t easy, even if you’re a dab hand at math. Prime factors? Modular arithmetic? Say what? Instead, here’s a totally straightforward explanation that ...

In 2012, two servers run by the U.S. Navy rolled back their clocks 12 years, deciding it was the year 2000. The servers were very important: they’re part of a worldwide network that helps computers ...

Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! In light of yesterday’s big Twitter news, here’s a flash back to 2009 when many pundits found it inconceivable, the “microblogging” site could be used for anything of ...