It's not just petty criminals after your iPhone, it might one day also be the feds. And they won't go to Apple, they'll come straight to you. Since the introduction of iOS 8 almost a year ago ...

Encryption extends to backups of your iPhone made through Apple's own software too, whether that's on the web in iCloud, or in iTunes or Finder on a connected computer.

Here's what you need to know: iOS Apple introduced device encryption with iOS 8 back in 2014. All it takes is a security code or fingerprint to enable it.

Here's how to check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol, how to enable it and when Apple could bring end-to-end ...

The bad news is, if the attacker -- the government-- also has access to your installation of iTunes, the encryption can cracked almost instantaneously. But how did ElcomSoft crack Apple's AES-256 ...