I encrypt my files before uploading them to the cloud. The reason is that cloud services promise security, but they're not impenetrable. After seeing several high-profile breaches, I developed my ...

Elon Musk has a challenge for security engineers. Sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter), Musk invited security researchers ...

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When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

A software programmer developed a way to use brute force to break the encryption of the notorious Akira ransomware using GPU compute power and enabling some victims of the Linux-focused variant of the ...

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Microsoft has admitted that turning on BitLocker on PCs with NVMe SSDs can have a noticeable performance impact.

A new Python-based malware called VVS stealer has been identified, targeting Discord users with stealthy techniques to steal ...

The zero-day exploitations of Ivanti's MDM platform meant unprecedented pwning of 1000s of orgs by a Chinese APT — and ...