Ever download a folder full of files, only to notice all of the documents inside are zipped shut and encrypted—basically the digital version of Fort Knox? These are examples of the ever-wonderful, yet ...

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, ...

According to industry experts, around $2.9 million is lost to cybercrime every minute. This amount is only going to rise in the coming years. Not every business has the resources for a full security ...

Here’s hoping you are not like many people I meet all the time. They have committed the Number One Sin of computer file management: they have a wide open, anyone can read it file on their computer or ...

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 ...

With the frequency and severity of malware attacks growing practically every day, the files and folders on our computers have never been more at risk. Sure, there have been solutions for strong ...

BON3KRUSH3R wants to password protect certain folders. Should he use the NTFS-based encryption that comes with Windows? Windows 2000, XP Office, Vista Office, and Vista Ultimate all come with the ...

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This is some code in VB6 that encrpyts a file under Windows XP. However down at the bottom of the code where the message box is, even though the file or folder exists and is encrypted after I click ...

Ransomware started out many years as scams where users were being tricked into paying fictitious fines for allegedly engaging in illegal online behavior or, in more serious cases, were blackmailed ...