Google is this week unveiling an enhanced client-side encryption (CSE) standard across its widely-used Gmail service – which marks its 21 st birthday on 1 April – that it hopes may render the ...

With careful planning, S/MIME can be nearly effortless after the initial install -- until you need to scan, inspect, or search the encrypted messages A few times a year, I recognize the need for a ...

The new feature is more accessible than S/MIME because it eliminates the need for certificate management. All enterprise users of Gmail can now easily apply end-to-end encryption to their emails.

If you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both ...

A research team has demonstrated that the two most common email encryption standards are vulnerable to attacks. Their attack, referred to as Efail, proved successful in 25 out of 35 tested email ...

Full details of the Efail flaw have now been made public ahead of the original schedule. My reading? Not as serious as first mooted, in particular the chances of having your past encrypted emails ...

Encrypted emails guarded by common encryption tools are allegedly "susceptible to critical vulnerabilities" that would expose their content to potential hackers. Sebastian Schnizel, a computer science ...

A team of nine academics is warning the world about a critical vulnerability in the OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption tools. The flaw, codenamed EFAIL, if exploited, allow an attacker to extract the ...

A professor at Münster University issued a warning on Sunday about serious vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME – two widely-used methods for encrypting email – which, if exploited, could reveal plain ...