GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

SINGAPORE – Lim Meng Liang, 38, spends most of his time solving the impossible. As a specialist in Diophantine equations – notoriously complex mathematical problems famous for having no solutions – ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

A team of developers, including the co-creator of the Signal protocol and contributors from Microsoft and Harvard, are building out open-source software that can help bring the sort of hardened ...

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 ...

File syncing and storage platforms, also known as cloud storage services, offer major convenience. They let you back up and access your data—documents, photos, video, and other file types—on any ...

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