With so much hacking, scamming, theft, and spying in the digital world, encryption is becoming more popular. You see it in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, in secure connections to websites ...

I handle a lot of sensitive files on a regular basis. Contracts, scans of identification, API keys, financial documents, and others all live somewhere on my devices. Some of them would be inconvenient ...

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 ...

The Sodinokibi (REvil) ransomware has added a new feature that allows it to encrypt more of a victim's files, even those that are opened and locked by another process. Some applications, such as ...

A new form of ransomware that has been spotted in the wild uses what researchers call "overkill" levels of encryption to hijack infected systems. This week, FortiGuard Labs said the new variant, known ...

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 ...

Designed for mobile phones and laptops, this secure, portable SSD features an ingenious NFC lock that can be activated via a ...

Palo Alto, Calif.-based encryption vendor PGP on Monday released updates to its core product line, PGP Encryption Platform and Universal Server, to better lock down information and allow resellers the ...

Reader Dustin Kuo is interested in locking down an external hard drive. He writes: Is there a software that can lock the external hard drive so if someone got hold of it, they wouldn’t be able to view ...

In this post, we'll apply security technologies for stored data. It's helpful to remember that we can't depend upon underlying infrastructure to secure data in the cloud, so we are focused on applying ...