Secure email providers like Protonmail, Hushmail, and Tutanota offer encryption that prevents third parties from seeing transmitted content.

We all use email to send documents, contracts, business information and invoices daily. It is the most common way that businesses communicate. However, the problem is that email is not secure. Your ...

Researchers at the Munster University of Applied Sciences discovered vulnerabilities in the Pretty Good Protection (PGP) and S/MIME technologies used to encrypt email. The problem resides in how email ...

Email encryption is the process of converting email information or data into a code, one that cannot be accessed by unauthorized people. Ok let me simplify it for you, the best analogy is that ...

Long has the war for email privacy been fought – and it looks we’ll keep fighting far into the future. People have always wanted to make sure than only the recipient can read email messages. Some ...

Google pressures email providers to step up encryption of mail sent between servers as it debuts End-to-End, a Chrome extension that promises the first streamlined use of PGP in webmail. Senior writer ...

A new webmail service called Lavaboom promises to provide easy-to-use email encryption without ever learning its users’ private encryption keys or message contents. Lavaboom, based in Germany and ...

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

Every webpage you visit is encrypted in transit, and you get a nasty error message if you go to a page that doesn't have the magic https leading off its URL. Your ...

Emailing sensitive documents to clients without email encryption leaves businesses at risk of being victimized by hackers who intercept emails to steal data and commit crimes like identity theft or ...

Two privacy-focused email providers have launched the Dark Mail Alliance, a project to engineer an email system with robust defenses against spying. Silent Circle and Lavabit abruptly halted their ...

Yahoo has quietly introduced a way for people to send scrambled messages through its email service. As first reported in August, Yahoo is providing its email encryption option through a deal with ...