A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about encryption and what the FBI terms its "Going Dark" problem---its inability to read the communications of surveillance targets because more and more ...

On Monday, security firm Sophos unveiled a new version of its enterprise-class SafeGuard disk encryption app for the Mac. Simply called SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac, Sophos’s new app is targeted ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

"Just encrypt it!" seems like a simple way to protect data, especially on laptops. It does protect data, but it's not necessarily so simple. Save time (and maybe your data!) with these practicals of ...

Search Guard discusses application-level Encryption at Rest for Elasticsearch, including Lucene files, snapshots, and ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

Google’s plan to encrypt user data on Android devices by default will get a new push with Android 6.0, also known as Marshmallow. The company requires Android ...

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. tomorrow plans to announce a petabyte-size storage array with native encryption, but some users with high security needs said they are uneasy about the possibility of ...