Encrypting files on your computer helps to secure your data from unauthorized access. Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders on your hard drives and removable media ...

Most Linux users know vim as a text editor that descended from vi. It can also function as a tool for encrypting text files. In this post, we examine how this is done and how to reverse the process.

January 27, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Encryption, at its core, is similar to those decoder rings you played with when you were younger. You have a ...

The EFS or Encrypting File System is a component of the legendary NTFS (New Technology File System). It is available on all the recent versions of the Windows operating system iterations from ...

Researchers have discovered that TeslaCrypt contains an inherent design flaw which has granted an avenue for the development of free decryption tools. Security researcher Lawrence Abrams explained in ...

Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed ...

Researchers from Mimecast have recently observed a campaign where threat actors are using a somewhat rarely seen but easy method to distribute malware using Microsoft Excel's standard file encryption ...

If you want to encrypt your files in a click, here is how you can do that. EncryptOnClick is a freeware that you can use to password protect your files. No matter whether you want to encrypt image, ...

The RansomHouse ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has recently upgraded its encryptor, switching from a relatively simple single ...

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the ...