A recommended approach to secure your most private documents — whether it’s a PDF, Word file, or Excel spreadsheet — is to lock them with a passcode. While this does help keep sensitive content safe, ...

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents ...

Password-protected files are an intelligent way in which attackers are working to evade enterprise security defenses and infect endpoints. Not long ago, phishing attacks were nearly always delivered ...

There are two simple ways to remove the password from a PDF file, one of which works no matter what software you have.