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 ...

Forever 21's investigation into a data breach first reported in November 2017 has revealed malware planted on the retailer's point-of-sale systems (PoS) as well as encryption disabled on some of the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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" ...

It's come to light that Amazon quietly disabled encryption on all of its Fire OS devices with its latest major software update. The revelation comes at a time when Apple is in an unprecedented legal ...