If you use a Mac computer in your small business, you probably have sensitive information and store private data in files and folders on your computer. This data must be organized and protected so the ...

Password-protected ZIP archives are common means of compressing and sharing sets of files—from sensitive documents to malware samples to even malicious files (i.e. phishing "invoices" in emails). But, ...

Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming has successfully cracked and decrypted a 30-year-old ZIP file, and has written a blog post about how he did it. John Graham-Cumming's blog: Cracking an old ZIP file ...

Maybe you have faced this problem some time. You just forget to decrypt the file first and instead directly copied the file in its encrypted form to another Windows computer. Now when you try to open ...

For years, computer files compressed with the ubiquitous "Zip" standard have been readable by rival programs, regardless of the software used to make the original archive. Now there are signs it will ...

Microsoft is bringing a lot of neat technologies to the masses with Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile, and one of the most exciting ones is Windows Hello. Microsoft's Windows Hello is an authentication ...

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 ...

Nowadays, the computer has a very important place in everybody’s life, as a personal gadget used for a lot of different things. Everything is digital, and it is stored on a computer’s hard disk or on ...

We've shown you before how you can protect any sensitive files stored on Dropbox using TrueCrypt or an encrypted zip file, but here's an even quicker shortcut that encrypts (and decrypts) files or ...