GnuPG, the open replacement for PGP, is an excellent tool to manage cryptographic signatures to files or e-mails for validity and integrity, as well as a tool to encrypt and decrypt sensitive files.

Hackers linked to the crippling NotPetya ransomware attack, which encrypts files on infected machines, have proved to Motherboard they have the ability to decrypt some locked files. Security ...

The BadBlock Ransomware is one poorly coded and horribly designed ransomware as it not only encrypts your files, but also trashes your system. Unlike almost all other ransomware infections, BadBlock ...

Victims of the widespread TeslaCrypt ransomware are in luck: Security researchers have created a tool that can decrypt files affected by recent versions of the malicious program. Surprisingly, the ...

Encryption can help your small business keep vital files and other important data safe, as well as maintain secure communications with clients and coworkers over email. However, not all forms of ...

The United States Department of Justice has charged a man with fraud after he allegedly told clients he could decrypt files ...

Kaspersky has released a decryptor for the Fonix Ransomware (XONIF) that allows victims to recover their encrypted files for free. Fonix Ransomware, also known as Xinof and FonixCrypter, launched in ...

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 ...

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 ...

I know I have done this before, but I need a way to take a small text file, and encrypt it, and then be able to decrypt it via the command line. I am totally blanking, because today I have the dumb -- ...

Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption tools for Stop, a family of ransomware that includes ...