Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux — the built-in gpg tool will do the trick. No matter what you’re doing on your computer, you need to do so with an eye to ...

Ransomware authors continue their hunt for new sources of income. After targeting consumer and then business computers, they’ve now expanded their attacks to Web servers. Malware researchers from ...

There are numerous commands for encrypting files on Linux. When you want to limit access to file contents, you can use file permissions but file encryption makes limiting access much more effective.

Encrypting files from the command line is simple with gpg. You can use it to encrypt and decrypt files with a password. The command gpg is part of GnuPG. GnuPG stands ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

Learn to secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on various OSes using a password. When considering how to share data efficiently, cloud storage has a leg up on hardware by making it ...

Threat researchers have found a new feature-rich malware that can encrypt files on any system running PHP, making it a high risk for Windows, macOS, and Linux web servers. The malware received the ...

In the Linux Journal article “Implementing Encrypted Home Directories” (August 2003), I described how to encrypt home directories transparently. This article describes how to implement another ...

A new version of the Ryuk Ransomware was released that will purposely avoid encrypting folders commonly seen in *NIX operating systems. After the City of New Orleans was infected by ransomware, ...

Ransomware authors continue their hunt for new sources of income. After targeting consumer and then business computers, they’ve now expanded their attacks to Web servers. Malware researchers from ...