A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about encryption and what the FBI terms its "Going Dark" problem---its inability to read the communications of surveillance targets because more and more ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

Headlines every few weeks shout “Laptop lost with 60,000 customer records” or “25,000 Social Security numbers on stolen notebook” or something equally disturbing. Given these leaks usually involve ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Let’s take a look at a typical ...

Google’s plan to encrypt user data on Android devices by default will get a new push with Android 6.0, also known as Marshmallow. The company requires Android ...

PGP Corporation today announced a major update to PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Mac OS X. While Whole Disk Encryption was previously available for Macs, it only encrypted external volumes and didn't ...