Networked computing is a double-edged sword. Connectivity makes transparent sharing of data through e-mail, Web sites, and ftp archives possible, but it also invites unwanted access to your data.

Average computer users would be forgiven for not having any idea what PGP is. There is so much going on below the surface of the modern computing experience that even critically important security ...

Despite a lot of criticism about its lack of communication on security issues, Apple does a lot to keep Mac OS X as secure as possible. Apple releases fairly frequent security updates to Mac OS X, ...

PGP began as a symmetric encryption system that used the same cryptographic key to both encrypt and decrypt information. Eventually the program became an implementation of public key cryptography, ...

The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail users. The company is adding full PGP support so that you can ...

Facebook announces experimental implementation of PGP, the cryptographic encryption and authentication tool used by Edward Snowden, into its social media empire. The Silicon Valley giant announced the ...

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

Although I’ve yet to see the one product that can encrypt data on all OSes and media, PGP’s suite of encryption products offers a competitive enterprise solution to protect a variety of content on ...