If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

After a sprawling hacking campaign exposed the communications of an unknown number of Americans, U.S. cybersecurity officials are advising people to use encryption in their communications. After a ...

We all know how different types of data-encryption techniques are widely used to grant secure communications on the internet. Secure protocols — such as TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

Here's how to set Apple's backup systems for Mac, iPhone, and iPad devices to encrypt the copies of your data. User privacy is a big deal for Apple, which has gone to considerable lengths to enable ...

As we keep participating in more complex data processes, as people, we know that we have to maintain some sort of privacy… Alexandra Henzinger has some important ideas about how to do that. Her input ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

WhatsApp just unleashed a new feature, Chat Lock that lets users secure their chats and keep prying eyes out. In this article, we explain how it works as well as how WhatsApp uses end-to-end ...

The best way to secure your data is to use end-to-end encryption apps like Signal and WhatsApp, officials advised Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor ...