An email account is the master key to your digital life. Password resets, banking alerts, tax records, travel plans; all roads lead there. And that makes it a hacker's most prized possession. The ...

Elon Musk has boldly asked hackers to break X’s new encrypted chat feature with no promise of a reward. As bug bounties ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. A new security warning has been issued to alert millions of ...

A man looks at his phone in New York on June 7. Federal officials warned Tuesday that a massive Chinese hacking operation against American telecommunications companies hasn’t yet been fully expelled ...

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Update, Oct. 31, 2024: This story, originally published Oct.