UK intelligence agency GCHQ has celebrated its centenary year by releasing emulators for famous code cipher and code breakers used in World War II. Last week, GCHQ said on Twitter that the public can ...

A World War II code breaker who helped hunt down Nazi U-boats turns 100 on Tuesday and will be honored with a parade past her house in Pittsburgh. Julia Parsons, who served in the Women Accepted for ...

BLETCHLEY PARK, England -- During World War II, the best brains in Britain cracked Germany's encrypted secrets but never broke their own code of silence. Now gray-haired and using walking sticks and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — Thanks to a group of World War II code breakers, St. Paul will be cemented in history as one of the birthplaces of modern computing technology this week. Born ...

German divers have stumbled on a rare Enigma encryption machine used by the Nazis during World War II — and believe it was tossed into the Baltic Sea from a scuttled vessel. The divers, who were ...

Julia worked to break the Nazi code used to encrypt German U Boat messages traffic. Julia Parsons kept the secret of her World War II military service for nearly 50 years. A U.S. Navy WAVE, Julia ...

They were hackers before hacking was a thing, and though they never shouldered a weapon in battle, these women saved thousands of lives, influenced battles and helped win World War II. They were the ...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, died on April 18 in ...

His ideas led to early versions of modern computing and helped win World War II. Yet he died as a criminal for his homosexuality. Overlooked is a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose ...