A federal judge has ordered a criminal defendant to decrypt his hard drive by typing in his PGP passphrase so prosecutors can view the unencrypted files, a ruling that raises serious concerns about ...

There are endless utilities available to encrypt files, drives, e-mail, and more using a password, but if you use a simple password, like your dog's name, you might ...

If you’ve been using PGP—short for Pretty Good Privacy—to send and receive encrypted emails, it might be time to switch to a different service to maintain the ...

Russian firm ElcomSoft on Thursday announced the release of Elcomsoft Forensic Disk Decryptor (EFDD), a new forensic tool that can reportedly access information stored in disks and volumes encrypted ...

Today's security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions -- or even billions -- of dollars at risk when information security isn't handled properly. Read now Most ...

The research for this post is now public. See this post for details. A less drastic safeguard is to ensure HTML is disabled in the email client, although the researchers have warned that future ...

GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files.

Although I’ve yet to see the one product that can encrypt data on all OSes and media, PGP’s suite of encryption products offers a competitive enterprise solution to protect a variety of content on ...

BlackBerry's are famed for their security — even President Obama uses one. But police in the Netherlands allege that they are able to intercept and decrypt emails sent on some PGP BlackBerry phones — ...