At a time when public trust in "big tech" is at an all-time low over countless data breaches and privacy scandals, even companies that specialize in online security are having to go the whole nine ...

Most people take for granted that the messages they send via popular messaging apps like Meta’s WhatsApp or Apple’s iMessage are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE), meaning that no one but the sender and ...

Email that only your recipient can read—sounds like a great idea for sensitive messages, right? Especially if you could have that within Gmail. Technically, you can. Google does offer full end-to-end ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

Update: Republished on April 28 with new reports into soaring email attacks on mobile phone users and the deployment of AI to industrialize the threat. As an interesting week for Google comes to an ...

Every webpage you visit is encrypted in transit, and you get a nasty error message if you go to a page that doesn't have the magic https leading off its URL. Your ...

Apimac has announced Encrypt Email 2.0, a new major release of their new email privacy software application for Mac OS X. Perfect for both personal and business use, Encrypt Email is an easy-to-use ...

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

Your email isn’t as private as you might assume—and you should look outside Google if you want to change that. Email that only your recipient can read—sounds like a great idea for sensitive messages, ...