The prime minister has been giving mixed messages about the government's views on encryption for months, but one thing is clear: no communication is safe from the ambition of government spies. Time ...

Flexadex lets you store addresses and phone numbers online, but a lack of Secure Sockets Layer encryption means that your data is not secure. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology ...

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The creator of Cryptocat, Nadim Kobeissi, is back with another easy-to-use encryption tool. This time it’s a Chrome app that aims to make it easy to create and share single encrypted files with others ...

Data security and privacy is a pretty hot topic right now. Currently Apple is battling it out with the FBI over whether or not they have to unlock an iPhone. It's nice to know that (at least for now) ...

The brain behind Cryptocat and miniLock is back with yet another tool designed to make your day-to-day life more secure. Peerio, Nadim Kobeissi’s latest creation, is a cloud-based, end-to-end ...

The fatal flaw of encrypted backups: You are locking yourself out of your own data ...

I've got a web app that's running fairly stable now. However, I want to encrypt the heck out of the user passwords and some other info that may be a bit personal. I'd like to know how other ASP ...