Quantum computers could one day crack the encryption protecting your most sensitive data. Here's how VPNs are adapting.

Coded messages date back to Roman Times and probably existed before. Sticklers may prefer encyphering an decyphering. reserve decrypt for decoding a message you don't have the key for. Each computer ...

You have heard of the term, Encrypted DNS, but do you know what it’s all about, and how to use it when the time comes? Not many people think they should know about encrypted DNS, but if you browse the ...

In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

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 ...

Federal authorities announced hackers in China have stolen "customer call records data" of an unknown number of Americans, but encrypted messaging could be the first line of defense for people in the ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

Encryption is basically jumbling of your data in a format that is unreadable. So that, even if a hacker is able to fetch your data, they won’t be able to make sense of it. Device Encryption takes the ...

The UK has agreed to drop its mandate for Apple to provide a ‘back door’ that would have enabled access to the protected encrypted data of American citizens and encroached ...