TextPad is a fully-featured text editor meant to serve not only as a replacement for Microsoft's Notepad program but also as a replacement for other text-based code editors. It is compatible with any ...

The FBI and others are now recommending that Americans send encrypted messages while texting or emailing someone. This comes after officials told NBC News that there was an unprecedented cyberattack ...

The FBI is warning phone users to encrypt their text messages, especially if you send messages between Apple and Android users. The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ...

I am starting to encrypt all of the backups to the tape. Currently I am using AxCrypt (free) and a logoff batch script to<BR>1. Connect to network share<BR>2. Encrypt & Compress all files in a ...

There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

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Mobile phone users are becoming more savvy to the potential security risks of standard, unencrypted text messaging and wary of government intrusion into everyday communications. Some consumers require ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

Blogger Vincent Cheung says he wants to publish private text on his weblog sometimes, so he devised a clever way to encrypt text with Javascript inside his posts. Not quite sure when and why you'd ...