WhatsApp announced on Friday it will be offering its users end-to-end encrypted backups later this year. Users will have a choice for how the encryption key used is stored. The simplest is for users ...

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Password manager LastPass US LP today revealed that a hacker who gained access to their systems last month copied data from a backup that contained customer account information. LastPass revealed the ...

Few, if any, services have done more to bring secure messaging to more people than WhatsApp. Since 2016, the messaging platform has enabled end-to-end encryption—by default, no less—for its billions ...

David S. writes asks about recovering a FileVault-encrypted drive. He says it was encrypted and then reformatted. Is it possible to recover any data from this drive since it was previously encrypted ...

WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole that has ...