Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary R. James Nicholson Monday has announced that all VA computers throughout the agency will be upgraded with enhanced data security encryption systems beginning ...

Let's Encrypt has announced that the free secure certificate program is leaving beta in its push to encrypt 100 percent of the web. The certificate authority (CA) announced on Tuesday that the Let's ...

A popular open-source program for encrypted communications has a serious flaw that could let Internet attackers slip into servers running the software, said its creators and a security company this ...

Having a good encryption tool is critical if you’re the type of person who strives to protect the files on your Windows 11/10 computer. In a case like this, we suggest taking great advantage of a tool ...

Astonishing and explosive news emerged yesterday yet again from the Snowden files. This is a whopper that is much bigger than PRISM. As reported in the Guardian, the New York Times, and ProPublica, ...

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor to the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...

Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn't figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after ...

The cybersecurity community is bracing for impact after a team of researchers revealed on Sunday that critical vulnerabilities in the encrypted email program PGP ...

If you want something done right, do it yourself. That may sound trite, but it rings true as advice for securing files that you’ve stored online. Several recent incidents—including breaches of Dropbox ...