Security researchers have published a paper demonstrating several ways password managers can be hacked. Is it time to make a change?

Encryption, for security purposes, is also known as a cipher. It is a mathematical algorithm that hides information or makes it secret. Data that is not encrypted is called plain text, while encrypted ...

People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password ...

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...

A group of academic security researchers have detailed a set of vulnerabilities in four popular cloud-based password managers ...

Academic study finds 25 attack methods in major cloud password managers exposing vault, recovery, and encryption design risks.

Passwords sit somewhere between the daily annoyance and necessary evil of the digital age. Once upon a time, most of us had that single, easy-to-remember six-digit password that we used for every site ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

How to easily encrypt/decrypt a file in Linux with gpg Your email has been sent Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No ...