Unless you encrypt your files, outsiders can easily gain access to them–even without knowing your Windows password–by booting into their own operating system from a special disc or from a bootable USB ...

GnuPG, or GPG, is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard. It allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications. It features a versatile key management system and access modules for ...

Your Kindle device can be a more productive way to work on your documents for reading and annotation. Even documents encrypted with DRM technology can be read on the ...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not watching you. Or so my dog tells me. If you share my pet's concern for data security, you'll want to start encrypting your stuff. You could always ...

Don't let your sensitive data fall into the wrong hands. These tools encrypt important PDFs without the need to spend hundreds of dollars on the full Adobe Acrobat program. At some point you’ll likely ...

You never know when one of your files might reach someone it wasn't intended to reach—perhaps through an email forward, a USB stick left behind on a desk, or maybe ...

Abrham Sorecha asked how to password-protect a folder. You can’t effectively password-protect a folder without encrypting it. And strictly speaking, you can’t ...

Businesses have proprietary information such as customer lists that need protection. The easiest way to protect only a few critical files is to encrypt and decrypt them manually. Unix system come with ...

Journalists accumulate many documents in the course of their investigations. The problem is not only how to manage that information and have it always available and organized, but also how to protect ...