Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

Welcome to Part 3 in my series on protecting your computer from prying eyes (Part 1, Part 2). In today's segment, we will be going over drive encryption using the TrueCrypt program on Windows OS.

GnuPG, or GPG, is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications. It features a versatile key management system and access modules for ...

Windows BitLocker offers an easy-to-use solution for encrypting your hard drive. However, it also has drawbacks, which might not make it a great option for everyone. BitLocker is a powerful tool for ...

To encrypt or not to encrypt, that is the question. Well, you should of course be encrypting data in motion particularly where it’s to be carried over a third party network such as the internet or the ...

Encryption can protect your data from crooks, but if you don't have a recovery key stored securely, it can also keep you out ...

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt ...

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) will now automatically encrypt all new objects added on buckets on the server side, using AES-256 by default. While the server-side encryption system has been ...

From the files of Lessons Learned: The Department of Veterans Affairs will equip all of its computers with data encryption software in an effort to prevent the exposure of sensitive personal or agency ...