A man in a black hoodie wearing a Guy Fawkes mask sits in a dark room, face lit up forebodingly by his laptop screen. He ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Algorithms are the building blocks that, when layered together, form the cryptographic fortress ...

Katie Paxton-Fear is neurodiverse (‘autistic’, she says). It’s a common, but not causal, condition among hackers. Autism ...

One of the best defenses against a cyber attack is to know your enemy. At the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival on May 2, festivalgoers can begin protecting themselves by learning how a ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

Securing your computer and network is a lot more complex than setting a trusty password (that isn’t your pet’s name!). There is an entire IT field devoted to testing the security of a system or ...

Ethical hacking might sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s actually an important tool when it comes to an organization's cyber security. An ethical hacker, also known as a white hat hacker, ...

Smartphones boggle my mind a whole lot – they’re pocket computers, with heaps of power to spare, and yet they feel like the furthest from it. As far as personal computers go, smartphones are ...