Now more than ever, it is important to protect your digital assets -- especially if you have a laptop. Whether your goal is to guard your financial data or keep nosy family members from viewing your ...

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

Why Encrypt Your Cloud Files? Encrypting your files in the cloud adds an extra layer of security and privacy, ensuring that even your cloud storage provider cannot access your data. This guide will ...

Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

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 ...

Encrypting files on your computer helps to secure your data from unauthorized access. Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders on your hard drives and removable media ...

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 ...

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 ...

I built a new Windows PC to replace an aging one, both are running Windows 11. A number of files on my old archive disk did not get decrypted during the move from the old to the new machine. The name ...

German academics have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted PDF files, sometimes without user interaction. Named PDFex, the new attack comes in two variations and was ...