At a time when public trust in "big tech" is at an all-time low over countless data breaches and privacy scandals, even companies that specialize in online security are having to go the whole nine ...

Email that only your recipient can read—sounds like a great idea for sensitive messages, right? Especially if you could have that within Gmail. Technically, you can. Google does offer full end-to-end ...

The federal government recently revealed a massive hacking campaign called Salt Typhoon that compromised the nation's largest telecommunications companies including AT&T and Verizon, and which ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.

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 ...