This is the big one: New documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA and its British equivalent, GCHQ (pictured above), have cracked VPNs, SSL, and TLS -- the encryption technologies that ...

On both sides of the Atlantic the battle over encryption is hotting up, with the FBI continuing to press its case for access and the British government making noises about its fears of what an ...

Robert Hannigan, the director of GCHQ, the intelligence agency embroiled in the Edward Snowden disclosures, thinks a compromise can be reached over the use of end-to-end encryption. But the spy agency ...

British spy agency GCHQ broke into the Facebook accounts of employees from Gemalto, the world's biggest SIM card manufacturer, to intercept data about mobile phone encryption, according to The ...

The NSA and GCHQ have had access to the vast majority of cell phone communications around the world since 2010. The latest report reveals that the NSA and its British counterpart, the Government ...

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The American National Security Agency (NSA), and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), similar clandestine intelligence agencies, stole SIM card encryption keys from a ...

The boss of GCHQ has said encryption should not be weakened -- but added technology companies should work closely with law enforcement agencies. In a rare public speech, given at MIT, Robert Hannigan ...

A security researcher has discovered that a telephone encryption system developed by UK intelligence agency GCHQ contains a backdoor that can be exploited by anyone who has its master key. Steven J.

The UK government's spy agency stands accused of developing and promoting an encryption standard for voice calls which includes a backdoor, allowing it to conduct "undetectable mass surveillance." The ...

An international coalition of civic society organizations, security and policy experts and tech companies — including Apple, Google, Microsoft and WhatsApp — has penned a critical slap-down to a ...