Anyone concerned about unwanted third parties such as big businesses or even hackers accessing sensitive data or conversations carried out via email might be interested in this quick guide which shows ...

Do you ever wish your emails could be extra-secure so they can't be opened by just anyone? Whether you're sending private messages containing sensitive or personal information, or you just want to be ...

Q. Recently, I’ve become concerned about the privacy of sending email. What’s a cheap and easy way to protect my email messages? A. I’ve consistently preached that the use of unencrypted email is the ...

Sending a regular email message with core personal information such as banking details, your home address and more can pose an immediate risk. If you use Gmail, today is your lucky day because the ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

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 ...

Email has been around for over 50 years. Back in 1971, what is widely regarded as the first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson as a test of an email feature on Arpanet. Since no one had told him what the ...

Email is old technology. It was invented in 1965 by MIT academics to share files and messages on a central disk. But more than 55 years later, even as other means of communication like text and direct ...

Lavabit and Silent Circle are readying a new end-to-end email encryption system, but third parties must step up In the light of a seemingly endless series of revelations about the NSA’s multifaceted ...

Emailing sensitive documents to clients without email encryption leaves businesses at risk of being victimized by hackers who intercept emails to steal data and commit crimes like identity theft or ...