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 ...

Whether for work or personal use, file sharing is a vital part of how we interact with each other on the internet. While most ...

In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more ...

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 ...

Linux provides a number of ways to control who has access to your files and what kind of access they have. Keeping your files private from anyone but those with superuser (root) access is easy on ...

Although I’ve yet to see the one product that can encrypt data on all OSes and media, PGP’s suite of encryption products offers a competitive enterprise solution to protect a variety of content on ...

A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...

There’s a new, more secure way to encrypt files in Windows 11, but it’s only an option for building secure applications, not a replacement for BitLocker. Image: Ascannio/Adobe Stock Windows 10 already ...