You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...

Encryption is the process of converting readable data, known as plaintext, into a jumbled string of data called ciphertext. Encryption algorithms use mathematical operations to scrabble data, making ...

Hashing and Encryption, do you know what these are? Some might have heard the names before and believe they are the same. But that is not the case at all. You see, much of the data that is moving ...

One easy way to up your privacy game and communicate securely online is to start using apps that utilize end-to-end encryption. End-to-end encryption prevents any bad actors from picking up your ...

VoIP seems poised to really take off, but did somebody forget about encryption? In the light of NSA eavesdropping, the question remainds: can a technology be secure if the government has access to ...

Encryption is a security layer that will scramble or “encrypt” information so that only those with a special key can “decrypt” it to return it to its original form. Encryption, or ciphers, go back to ...

If there’s one threat that keeps your average IT security leader awake at night, it’s undoubtedly the threat of ransomware that continues to plague businesses of every stripe and size across the globe ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Birch is a London-based advisor on digital financial services. Dec 06, 2024, 07:26am EST Dec 17, 2024, 09:58am EST Apple CEO ...

Iron Mountain Inc. is advising its customers that current, commonly used disaster recovery processes do not address increased requirements for protecting personal information from inadvertent ...

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 ...