When ransomware strikes, IT leaders face a deceptively simple question: How confident are you that you have clean data for recovery?

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

You follow this story because it shows how a private conversation can become a public tragedy. Court records say a 39-year-old man communicated with a 17-year-old on encrypted platforms for about a ...

New partnership improves the ability of organizations to better detect, respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.

The fatal flaw of encrypted backups: You are locking yourself out of your own data ...

PCWorld outlines four essential security upgrades for new PCs: verifying Windows encryption settings, optimizing antivirus configurations, enabling biometric login, and setting up dedicated password ...

According to the report, ransomware encryption is on the decline. Moving up the ranks is a malware that plays dead until it's ripe to strike. In its annual Red Report, a body of research that analyzes ...

When Microsoft patched a vulnerability last summer that allowed threat actors to use Windows’ shortcut (.lnk) files in ...

Victims of money scams have even more to worry about than losing their assets—the real risk of getting duped again by so-called asset recovery firms.

BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...

Microsoft may give your encryption key to law enforcement upon valid request - here's how to keep it safe ...

The ease of recovering information that was not properly redacted digitally suggests that at least some of the documents released by the Justice Department were hastily censored. By Santul Nerkar ...