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 ...

Emailing sensitive documents to clients without email encryption leaves businesses at risk of being victimized by hackers who intercept emails to steal data and commit crimes like identity theft or ...

BellSouth unveiled last week a service that allows its business DSL customers to encrypt outgoing e-mail for enhanced security and privacy. BellSouth Secure Mail works with customers’ Microsoft ...

Protecting emails that contain sensitive data is crucial. The loss of confidential information or customer details can lead to hefty fines, negative publicity, and a significant erosion of customer ...

Proton Mail, an open-source end-to-end encrypted email service, announced on May 5, 2026, that it now supports post-quantum cryptography to prepare for future encryption risks using quantum computers.

As we all should know by now, any email that isn’t encrypted traverses the Internet in clear text that can easily be viewed with little skill and just some patience. If businesses want to make sure ...

Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21. The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to ...

Think email encryption is only for major corporations with secrets to hide? Think again. I'll show you why secure email has ...

Google has introduced a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature in Gmail, enabling organizations to send encrypted emails that even Google cannot read to other Gmail users. Later this year, the ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Email, that daily workflow staple, is becoming a real problem in this post-Snowden era. Or rather, it always has been an issue ...

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 ...