Any of these encryption apps can safeguard a file’s contents, but differ in terms of supported platforms, remote capabilities, and features. Large or small, every company has secrets it needs to keep ...

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 ...

Cybersecurity firm Avast has released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can help victims recover their data without paying the crooks any money. Akira first appeared in March 2023 and ...

Cybercriminals behind a new ransomware program called CoinVault are trying out a new psychological tactic to convince users to pay up—freebies. The new threat was discovered by security researchers ...

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I had a user that encrypted their network files for some reason. That user is now gone but someone else needs to access the files. Since the user's account has been removed, I have to use the EFS ...

A new form of ransomware that has been spotted in the wild uses what researchers call "overkill" levels of encryption to hijack infected systems. This week, FortiGuard Labs said the new variant, known ...

Feeling paranoid? Worry that snoopers can look inside your PC too easily, or spy on your e-mail when you send it across the Internet? Don't worry, you're not paranoid, you're just realistic. It's an ...

A newly released decryptor allows for the free recovery of files encrypted by some versions of GandCrab, a ransomware family that has affected hundreds of thousands of people since the beginning of ...

Changes that Dropbox has made to its terms of service have caused somewhat of an uproar in the blogsphere this week after Dropbox said it will decrypt users’ data ...

Last week, researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web discovered a new Ransomware family targeting Linux systems. They called the malware Linux.Encoder.1, and warned administrators with ...

Digital signatures: an essential part of effectively maintaining your security is knowing when any data has been tampered ...