Security

Report: UK and US spies have cracked BlackBerry’s BES encryption

Documents leaked by Edward Snowden indicate that the NSA can read certain targets' BES communications

Service lets companies manage Amazon Web Services encryption keys

Dark Matter Labs rolling out private-key encryption storage package for cloud services

4 survival strategies for IT chaos

Your IT survival guide for the new business normal: Four steps for mastering the world of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity.

Blunders lead to Ballmer’s demise

Analysts say mobile miseries, Windows 8 woes and the $900 million Surface RT fiasco forced the Microsoft board to act.

Encryption still best way to protect data — despite NSA

Properly implemented encryption very hard to beat, even by experts at U.S. spy agency, security experts say

Schneier on NSA’s encryption defeating efforts: Trust no one

Some security professionals raise concerns about tech companies' potential cooperation with the surveillance agency

MIT’s inflatable antennae could boost small satellite communications

Mylar-based attennae could inflate once launched, withstand micro-meteor threat, MIT says.

Android Trojans gain botnet distribution, new code

Yahoo: More than 12,000 US data requests led to disclosures more than 11,000 times

And that's just so far this year, according to Yahoo's first transparency report, released Friday

How to Prepare for a Potential Syrian Counterattack on the U.S. Power Grid