I once co-wrote a book on enterprise email where I likened email encryption to a “sucking chest wound.” That was in 1997, when you had to do all the encryption key management on your own, a daunting ...

Proton Mail finally has a native desktop app, rolling out now in beta for some users on Windows and MacOS. The encrypted email service has, of course, been available to desktop users since its ...

Two privacy-focused email providers have launched the Dark Mail Alliance, a project to engineer an email system with robust defenses against spying. Silent Circle and Lavabit abruptly halted their ...

In today’s digital age, email remains a critical tool for communication. However, it also presents a significant vulnerability, with cybercriminals continuously seeking opportunities to intercept and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Email, that daily workflow staple, is becoming a real problem in this post-Snowden era. Or rather, it always has been an issue ...

Google, Microsoft and Proton launched new end-to-end encryption products to confront the 50% increase in ransomware, phishing and other email-vector attacks from the first half of 2022. Image: faithie ...

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 ...

As we all should know by now, any email that isn’t encrypted traverses the Internet in clear text that can easily be viewed with little skill and just some patience. If businesses want to make sure ...