When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

What if anyone could access your passwords, bank details and confidential emails? The online world would literally resemble a Wild West shootout. Complete and utter chaos. Today, businesses cannot ...

Attackers have been tampering with TLS signatures at a scale never before seen using a technique called cipher-stunting. When it comes to cyberattacks, adversaries are focusing not just on advanced ...

Cryptography, i.e. the encryption of information, keeps us safe in our daily lives and yet we barely know it’s there. It’s impossible to imagine our digital lives without it, because if data weren’t ...

Startup QSAlpha, developer of advanced digital security solutions for mobile device users, has announced the launch of an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for its new secure Android-based Quasar IV ...

Australian searchable data encryption cybersecurity startup CipherStash Pty. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $3 million in new funding to expand its digital defense offerings against ...

Last year, in between writing Take Control books and Macworld articles, I managed to squeeze in another little project – writing the 900-page “Mac Security Bible,” published in January 2010 by Wiley.

Encryption is the process of converting readable data into a coded format that is only accessible by someone with the proper key or password. At its core, encryption ensures privacy and security by ...