Encrypting files on your computer helps to secure your data from unauthorized access. Microsoft Windows features the native ability to encrypt files and folders on your hard drives and removable media ...

A newly released decryptor allows for the free recovery of files encrypted by some versions of GandCrab, a ransomware family that has affected hundreds of thousands of people since the beginning of ...

If your business uses Microsoft's Access database software to manage sensitive data, you'll want to encrypt your database and its tables to prevent them being viewed or manipulated by unauthorized ...

Victims of LambdaLocker ransomware can now get their files back for free using a decryption tool released as part of the No More Ransom initiative. The scheme was launched last year, with the goal of ...

Let's say I wanted to pass encrypted data to an executable as a command line parameter. If I store the decryption key in my executable, it could be easily discovered. Even if I XOR it or obfuscate it ...

Learn how to protect the information handled by your .NET applications by encrypting and decrypting the data using either a single key or a public/private key pair. Encryption transforms data into a ...

If you’re unfortunate enough to find your Windows computer has been infected by the ProLock ransomware, you’ll find the recovery instructions from the criminals who compromised your PC tell you to do ...

In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more ...

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...

You can store encrypted values in your ASP.NET Core configuration file and seamlessly decrypt the values as you retrieve them. But there are, at least, two issues that you'll need to address. When I ...