File and folder security is crucial in this day and age. There are apps you can use to heighten the security of your files. These apps are free and available for desktop and mobile devices. The need ...

On average, it takes businesses 287 days to find and contain a data breach, giving attackers over nine months to access and steal any records they want from the database. However, encrypting those ...

If you use your laptop as a glorified game console or TV, you typically don't spend a lot of time thinking about security. It's only when that device becomes a workstation that you realize the usual ...

A new form of ransomware that has been spotted in the wild uses what researchers call "overkill" levels of encryption to hijack infected systems. This week, FortiGuard Labs said the new variant, known ...

How to encrypt your files and folders on Mac? If you have a Mac from late 2017 or later (with a T2 security chip or Apple silicon), then your system drive contents are encrypted by default. However, ...

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In this post, we'll apply security technologies for stored data. It's helpful to remember that we can't depend upon underlying infrastructure to secure data in the cloud, so we are focused on applying ...

The fatal flaw of encrypted backups: You are locking yourself out of your own data ...