What’s most striking about the disabling of Fire OS’s encryption is that Amazon didn’t publicly give users a heads-up, despite Fire OS 5 shipping to users last fall. The news was first reported ...

Amazon caught flack on Wednesday for disabling the encryption capabilities of its Fire phones and tablets with a software update. The company says its reasoning was simple: people didn’t use it. “In ...

This article will show you how to disable or enable end-to-end Encryption in WhatsApp for chat backup. By default, the encryption for chat backup remains disabled. But WhatsApp has an option to enable ...

Microsoft is moving to disable RC4, an encryption cipher embedded in Windows authentication for more than two decades. The ...

The New York State Senate has began to re-analyze a bill which aims to eliminate strong smartphone encryption for all devices sold or leased in the Empire State. If the encryption bill gets the green ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Locally stored data on Amazon Fire devices is no longer encrypted. Anyone who upgrades their Kindle ...

A man is seen next to a Firefox logo at a Mozilla stand during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 28, 2013. REUTERS/Albert Gea (Reuters) - Mozilla said it will disable Secure Sockets ...

The revised version of the Android Compatibility Definition Document states that a full-disk encryption should be enabled by default prior to the device's setup process. The new version was launched ...

(Reuters) - Mozilla said it will disable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption in the latest version of its Firefox web browser that will be released on Nov. 25 after a security bug called "Poodle" ...