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 ...

Encryption comes in different forms and has been used by different services for years. Messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal use end-to-end encryption to safeguard messages, ensuring that ...

Think email encryption is only for major corporations with secrets to hide? Think again. I'll show you why secure email has ...

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 ...

I have been moving from Google and Microsoft to Proton products. Proton's email and other products include encryption by default, and password-protecting messages adds a layer of security. However, I ...

Let’s Encrypt has been providing free “wildcard” certificates for websites for nearly seven years, enabling HTTPS connections for millions of domains and doing the whole Internet a real solid. Now the ...

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 ...

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 ...

While sending an email through the Outlook desktop app, if you see an error message saying Microsoft Outlook cannot sign or encrypt this message because there are no ...