It takes just five minutes for one of the most prolific forms of ransomware to encrypt 100,000 files, demonstrating how quickly ransomware can become a major cybersecurity crisis for the victim of an ...

I recently built a new PC with Windows 11 Home and noticed it doesn't have access to BitLocker, unlike my other machines and my work laptop. This got me thinking about my file security situation, and ...

The whole concept of encryption once intimidated me with all those technical terms flying around. But after diving in and actually trying it myself, I discovered that encryption is surprisingly simple ...

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 ...

Porcupins asked the Antivirus & Security Software forum if encryption standards like AES really make your data secure. There’s no such thing as perfect security. Someone with sufficient time and money ...

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, ...

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 ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

There are three different ways using which you can change the encryption level for file sharing connections on your Windows 11/10 computer. These are: Advanced sharing settings Using the Settings app ...

I built a new Windows PC to replace an aging one, both are running Windows 11. A number of files on my old archive disk did not get decrypted during the move from the old to the new machine. The name ...