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, ...

Google Drive is among the top consumer cloud platforms on the web right now, which means we, as users, must demand a higher level of security and privacy from the search giant. We cannot trust Google ...

I encrypt my files before uploading them to the cloud. The reason is that cloud services promise security, but they're not impenetrable. After seeing several high-profile breaches, I developed my ...

Snoopers and thieves can easily access files and passwords on your computer, even without your Windows password. All they have to do is insert a special disc (such as ...

A new strain of Python-based malware has been used in a "sniper" campaign to achieve encryption on a corporate system in less than three hours. The attack, one of the fastest recorded by Sophos ...

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is ...

If you back up both your data and your encryption key, your files should remain safely accessible to you (and only you). Open ...

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 ...

Cryptomator creates encrypted vaults on your PC that work like regular folders. When you drop a file into a vault, it gets ...

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 ...