Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a ...

Read “ How to Use TrueCrypt to Encrypt Your Sensitive Documents ” for a step-by-step explanation of how to set up a basic virtual encrypted disk that will make your important files unreadable ...

Learn how to show encrypted and compressed file and folder names in color in Windows 11/10. Change folder name color from black to green and blue.

Maintain backups of encrypted and cloud data to prevent permanent loss, following the 3-2-1 rule. Use a NAS for a secure and customizable backup destination. You need to keep your data encrypted, both ...

Close the Certificate Manager. Right-click the encrypted text file containing the message you'd like to read. Select "Open with" and click "TextPad" to open it in TextPad.

German academics have developed a new attack that can extract and steal data from encrypted PDF files, sometimes without user interaction. Named PDFex, the new attack comes in two variations and ...

You can use cipher and compact command line search and list all your EFS encrypted and compressed files & folders on Windows 11/10.

Even Google itself wouldn't be able to read them. But file sharing is another matter. You still can't encrypt files using the company's documents-editing-and-sharing service Google Drive.

After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...