Threatpost talks to crypto expert Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at RSA Conference 2018 about the U.S. government’s current position on device encryption and law enforcement’s use of iPhone passcode cracker called GreyKey.

Mobile apps leak personal data via insecure ads that transmit ad-targeting data insecurely.

Microsoft president Brad Smith at RSAC 2018 said more than 30 companies will oppose government cyberattacks on “innocent civilians.”

Cryptomining malware is the top threat to watch out for 2018, according to a Q1 analysis of threats.

The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found.

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell talk about the top security trends that they are watching out for at the 2018 RSA Conference this week in San Francisco.

The divide between developers and hackers is real. So, apparently, is the effort to bring them together and make them play nicely. “It’s not just a knowledge gap, but an empathy gap,” said I Am The Cavalry founder Josh Corman during a panel discussion at last week’s RSA Conference. “One common thing between the two...

SAN FRANCISCO—One would think that six of the smartest security people on the planet could come to some sort of collective conclusion on the FBI-Apple debate. But that wasn’t the case today during the annual Cryptographers’ Panel at RSA Conference. The debate over whether Apple should assist the FBI in unlocking an accused terrorist’s iPhone...