Welcome back to a new year of Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about cheap scanners, encrypting backups, recovering deleted files, troubleshooting new ...

Today, a victim of a new ransomware called Paradise posted in the BleepingComputer.com forums and uploaded a sample so we could take a look at it. While this ransomware is not revolutionary by any ...

After reading my article on encrypting sensitive data, Ian Cooper asked if it was safe “to use one of these encryption tools in conjunction with an online backup service?” [Have a tech question? Ask ...

Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

A new ransomware called CryptoRoger has been discovered today by MalwareBytes security researcher S!Ri. This ransomware will encrypt a victim's files using AES encryption and then appends the .crptrgr ...

I've read a number of articles recently about encryption and keeping my personal data safe. I can see the need for protecting financial information, but what other info do I really need to be ...

So I thought, hmmm, I think I want to encrypt the folder with tax returns and the like on my X drive. Folder, attributes, advanced, encrypt, viola, done! So then I wanted to copy them to my notebook ...

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Hello and welcome to another InfoSecurity World tutorial. The intent of this article is to teach one how to encrypt sensitive files. When set up correctly with a strong password, it would be almost ...

I’ve been involved with multiple projects with file encryption lately, and even though I’ve been assisting with data encryption projects for years, I’m still learning something new every day. They say ...