Mobile apps have replaced texting. Cloud storage have replaced pen drives. Hardly anything exists in the offline mode. Everything is online, interconnected and also increasingly prone to security ...

The government of India has scrapped a proposal for a new law on encryption that would have required all citizens to maintain a plain-text version of their encrypted ...

Kleopatra is the GnuPG front-end program for Windows as a part of Gpg4win. And it's driving me nuts. The Linux program has a simple clipboard, and this makes sense to me. You have text to encrypt, or ...

Facebook isn't the only big tech company found to be storing passwords in plain text. Google has warned G Suite users that an "error" in a password recovery implementation left some of their passwords ...

One of the most common problems identified by static code analysis tools is the presence of plain text passwords written directly into configuration files. It's ...

If you send sensitive information through email, you risk someone intercepting and reading your messages. However, you can ensure that only you and the intended recipient can view the contents of your ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company acknowledged Thursday after a security researcher exposed the lapse. By storing passwords in ...