Security News

In an effort to secure users' data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud...

If you use Linux, and are looking for an easy method of encrypting data on your USB drives, Jack Wallen has you covered. With the help of GNOME Disks, this process is very easy.

Alphabet subsidiary and tech incubator Jigsaw, which concentrates on creating solutions for “the toughest geopolitical challenges,” has released Intra, an Android apps that encrypts DNS queries....

Cloudflare this week announced it has turned on Encrypted SNI (ESNI) across all of its network, making yet another step toward improving user privacy. read more

Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1, is now trusted by all major root programs, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry. read more

Let’s Encrypt certificates can now stand on their own for almost all newer versions of operating systems, browsers and devices.

Adding the encrypt/decrypt right-click menu to the Ubuntu file manager is easy.

A long established ransomware family recently added the ability to deploy a cryptocurrency miner instead of file encryptor, based on the victim machine’s configuration. read more

Free and open Certificate Authority (CA) Let’s Encrypt on Tuesday disabled TLS-SNI-01 validation after learning that users could abuse it to obtain certificates for domains they do not own. read more

A new piece of ransomware is targeting Android users. Dubbed DoubleLocker, it both encrypts users’ files and changes the device’s PIN. About DoubleLocker Lukáš Štefanko, the ESET researcher who...