Massive password breach exposes 149 million stolen credentials online, including 48 million Gmail accounts. Learn what happened and protect yourself.

This step-by-step guide shows Linux users how to secure cloud-stored files with VeraCrypt by encrypting data locally, keeping ...

Entangled in blue Artist’s impression of entanglement. The quantum phenomenon plays a crucial role in the encryption protocol developed by Koji Yamaguchi and Achim Kempf. (Courtesy: iStock/Jian Fan) ...

For years, I've been told the same thing: Make your passwords longer. Add more characters, throw in symbols, mix uppercase and lowercase letters and you'll be safer online. But as password attacks get ...

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison discovered a large number of websites store sensitive information in plain ...

Passkeys provide stronger security than traditional passwords and could eventually replace them entirely as adoption grows.

In early 2025, Forbes reports, investigators at the FBI served Microsoft with a warrant seeking the BitLocker encryption recovery keys for several laptops it believed held evidence of fraud in Guam’s ...

We were able to get our first look at Android’s upcoming Intrusion Logging feature. It records security incidents and logs key activities that could be linked to data breaches. The feature is designed ...

From hidden rows to sheet protection passwords, Excel's "privacy" features are easily bypassed—encryption and deletion are much more watertight.

When you sync WhatsApp with your Google account, your data is automatically backed up to the cloud regularly. You can restore your messages if you accidentally clear ...