If you sync files on your PC to cloud storage, you're probably aware of the privacy risks involved. Services like Google Drive and OneDrive have access to everything you upload unless you encrypt it ...

April 26, 2012 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google I've read a number of articles recently about encryption and keeping my personal data safe. I can see the need ...

Locking down individual files is great, but a blanket encryption will prevent anyone from getting their paws on your files.

Reader Ron Adams liked the idea of a mentally encrypted password card system, because it's similar to one he's been using for years to encrypt files and give each one a secure but memorable unlocking ...

On the one-year anniversary of Edward Snowden's first NSA document leaks, Bahaa Nasr spent the day in Beirut, teaching a roomful of Middle East activists how to thwart the kind of government-backed ...

As an IT Director I never had any real reason to encrypt my entire hard drive. But there definitely times I have needed to encrypt files. Thanks to a tool I just heard about called AxCrypt. Not only ...

After reading my article on encrypting sensitive data, Ian Cooper asked if it was safe “to use one of these encryption tools in conjunction with an online backup service?” [Have a tech question? Ask ...

Today, a victim of a new ransomware called Paradise posted in the BleepingComputer.com forums and uploaded a sample so we could take a look at it. While this ransomware is not revolutionary by any ...

The creator of Cryptocat, Nadim Kobeissi, is back with another easy-to-use encryption tool. This time it’s a Chrome app that aims to make it easy to create and share single encrypted files with others ...

Today Google launched Google Drive, a free-if-you-just-need-5GB-of-storage Dropbox-like service that lets you easily store and share files in the cloud. I like the idea of free cloud storage, but I’m ...

True story: A friend of mine—a programmer I’ll call Annie—came home one day to find her new town house burglarized. Among the stolen items was the PowerBook she used for work. While she hoped that the ...