If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

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"Military-grade encryption" sounds impressive in marketing materials, but the term refers to something more specific and less ...

EvilTokens uses AES-GCM encrypted HTML and Microsoft Device Code Phishing to hide Microsoft 365 account takeover pages until ...

GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

If you want to enable or disable Trust access to Visual Basic Project in Office apps, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc., you can do so with the help of the built-in option, Local Group Policy ...

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 ...

ESET researchers have discovered two as-yet undocumented Windows variants of SprySOCKS, a previously Linux-only backdoor reportedly used by FishMonger, the group believed to be operated by a Chinese ...

The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance. So one group of ...

When you download a file from the Internet like images, documents, etc. to your Windows computer, they are treated as untrusted files. So if malware is downloaded in the form of JPEG, it will be able ...