In today’s world of constant surveillance and daily data breaches, it’s never been more important to take control of your own privacy. Whether you’re protecting your emails, securing sensitive files, ...
In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...
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 ...
Hey all,<BR><BR>I've been tasked with creating a text file for database import that goes to a client system. This text file will be created twice a day and will contain sensitive information such as ...
Whooooooops!! If you use PGP encryption to protect your email, you might want to disable it for the time being. A team of European researchers have discovered vulnerabilities — they’re calling them ...
Anyone using PGP to encrypt their email could have their messages exposed thanks to a severe vulnerability for which there's no proper fix. That's according to researchers in Germany, who said anyone ...
If you think you might ever need to have a truly private email conversation with anyone ever, then you need to start exchanging encrypted messages with people right now about banal day-to-day life.
How do you know someone is really who they say they are? In developer and security circles, you do it with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) keys. Or, you used to anyway. If ...
About a year and a half ago, I reviewed the initial release of PGP Whole Disk Encryption (WDE) for Mac (see “Securing Your Disk with PGP Whole Disk Encryption,” 31 October 2008). At the time, this ...
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 ...
PGP Corporation was purchased by software giant Symantec in 2010 for US$300 million, and according to Mac user Zimmermann, " Symantec hasn't kept that up. So I hardly ever run PGP." In lieu of email, ...