I encrypt my files before uploading them to the cloud. The reason is that cloud services promise security, but they're not impenetrable. After seeing several high-profile breaches, I developed my ...

How to encrypt your files and folders on Mac? If you have a Mac from late 2017 or later (with a T2 security chip or Apple silicon), then your system drive contents are encrypted by default. However, ...

On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

Encryption secures information by translating it into computer code that’s unreadable to those who don’t have the means to access the information. These means of access can include passwords, ...

If you use your laptop as a glorified game console or TV, you typically don't spend a lot of time thinking about security. It's only when that device becomes a workstation that you realize the usual ...

A new and targeted ransomware named AgeLocker utilizes the 'Age' encryption tool created by a Google employee to encrypt victim's files. Yesterday, a consultant created a topic in the BleepingComputer ...

Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...