Encrypting files on your computer helps to secure your data from unauthorized access. Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders on your hard drives and removable media ...

If your business uses Microsoft's Access database software to manage sensitive data, you'll want to encrypt your database and its tables to prevent them being viewed or manipulated by unauthorized ...

The problem with encrypted data is that you must decrypt it in order to work with it. By doing so, it’s vulnerable to the very things you were trying to protect it from by encrypting it. There is a ...

Learn how to protect the information handled by your .NET applications by encrypting and decrypting the data using either a single key or a public/private key pair. Encryption transforms data into a ...

Right now, messages you send in messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal and Threema are encrypted to guarantee that nobody else can read them - but what if, one day, a computer is invented that is able ...

Who would you want to read your private text messages? For most of us, the obvious answer is only the person or group we intend to send it to. From casual to deeply personal conversations, people ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...