Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Released files related to convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein contain numerous crypto mentions. New ...

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche signaled that this would be the last major release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. By Ashley Ahn The Department of Justice on Friday released the largest ...

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

As tax season comes underway, there are a few tax changes this year that filers should be aware of. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) also will start accepting taxes as early as January 26, but most ...

Free File is not Direct File, which the IRS has discontinued for the 2026 tax season. This tax season, according to the IRS, eight private-sector partners are offering guided tax software products ...

Microsoft handed over encryption keys for its hard drive encryption software BitLocker to the FBI last year, complying with a search warrant tied to a fraud investigation in Guam. This marks the first ...

Moxie Marlinspike's latest project is Confer, a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT. The concept that underpins Confer is "that your conversations with an AI assistant should be as private as ...

In a move to improve interoperability between Google Workspace and Microsoft Office, Google has baked a new feature that lets you edit Microsoft Office files locked behind a password with minimal ...

Amazon customers can now file a claim under its $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which resolved allegations of deceptive enrollment practices in the retailer's Prime shopping ...

(NEXSTAR) – In 2025, nearly 300,000 Americans used a new electronic system to file their taxes directly with the IRS for free. In 2026, that’s no longer an option. IRS Direct File launched as a pilot ...

Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

The Epstein files have been hacked. Updated December 26 with previous examples of PDF document redaction failures, as well as warnings about malware associated with some Epstein Files distributions ...