I encrypt my files before uploading them to the cloud. The reason is that cloud services promise security, but they're not impenetrable. After seeing several high-profile breaches, I developed my ...

Once installed, keeping Restic up to date is effortless. The tool includes a self-update command that automatically downloads ...

The anonymizing Linux distribution for USB sticks, Tails, has been released in version 7.4. It fixes minor bugs.

Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

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 ...