How to easily encrypt/decrypt a file in Linux with gpg Your email has been sent Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No ...

There are many reasons to encrypt files — even on a system that is well maintained and comparatively secure. The files may highly sensitive, contain personal information that you don’t want to share ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

March 2002 was a bad month for advocates of personal cryptography tools. Network Associates officially dropped support for its PGP Desktop products, easily the most popular, mature and useful suite of ...

Chances are you have some type of information on your desktop or laptop computer that someone else wants--for the wrong reasons. For the most part, your information is relatively safe in your home.

Cybersecurity firm Profero has discovered that the RansomExx gang does not correctly lock Linux files during encryption, leading to potentially corrupted files. In a new report by Profero, Senior ...

Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can help victims recover their data without paying the crooks any money. Akira first appeared in March 2023 and ...

Security researchers have discovered a new kind of ransomware that uses a little-known Java file format to make it more difficult to detect before it detonates its file-encrypting payload. Consulting ...