You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

AES-256 remains the gold standard for high-stakes data encryption. While other, more lightweight and less-energy-intensive encryption methods do exist, they operate with multiple trade-offs in ...

Security researchers have devised a method of defeating AES-256bit encryption in as little as five minutes, and most importantly, you don’t need an expensive supercomputer to do it. The technique ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...

Solid state drives have a number of advantages over traditional hard drives. They're faster, less noisy and more reliable in general. But now, Samsung's line of SSDs have another huge benefit: ...