End-to-end encryption secures messages before they're sent and decrypts them only after arriving at a recipient's device.

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

You can use private conversations on Skype to send messages or make calls that are encrypted end-to-end.

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — After a sprawling hacking campaign exposed the communications of an unknown number of Americans, U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their ...

WhatsApp just unleashed a new feature, Chat Lock that lets users secure their chats and keep prying eyes out. In this article, we explain how it works as well as how WhatsApp uses end-to-end ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

We all know how different types of data-encryption techniques are widely used to grant secure communications on the internet. Secure protocols — such as TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its ...

Nowadays data breaches aren't rare shocks—they're a weekly drumbeat. From leaked customer records to stolen source code, our ...

As we keep participating in more complex data processes, as people, we know that we have to maintain some sort of privacy… Alexandra Henzinger has some important ideas about how to do that. Her input ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.