Vaultree, a leader in advanced data encryption, is debuting Vaultree Encrypted Numbers (VENum), as well as announcing its open source availability. The VENum stack—which includes Vaultree Encrypted ...

A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...

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 ...

It would be a difficult thing to imagine, but the first Ransomware in the history emerged in the year 1989. This Ransomware was called AIDS Trojan. The AIDS Trojan spread via floppy disks and involved ...

Security researcher Michael Gillespie has developed a new Windows app to help victims of ransomware infections. Named CryptoSearch, this tool identifies files encrypted by several types of ransomware ...

If you want to protect sensitive data -- especially if you’re sending it via email or via an online service -- one of these programs can help. While safeguarding personal and business data has always ...

BitLocker is the most common way to encrypt your Windows PC to protect it against data theft in the event that someone steals your PC, but it isn't the only option. If your PC doesn't have BitLocker ...

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 ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...