Apple has strict guidelines about protecting user data with sandboxing, but ChatGPT for Mac bypassed all of this by storing conversations in plain text until it was patched on June 28. When everything ...

LastPass is no stranger to data breaches. It’s suffered several high-profile leaks, with the most recent (and alarming) incident happening just last year. When news first broke in August, the ...

Sending unencrypted files through email or sharing sites can allow hackers to access data. Small-business owners will have an opportunity to guard against such threats by learning file encryption ...

A person claiming to have hacked into PlayStation Network has claimed that not only is credit card information sent to Sony through the system via an unencrypted text file, but the company can also ...

Texas-based healthcare services provider HMG Healthcare LLC is the latest company to be hacked as a data breach resulted in the theft of personally identifiable information and medical records.

I'm looking to encrypt a file with OpenSSL functions (blowfish, des, rc4-- haven't picked one yet). Anyhow, after decrypting a file, I need to know if the file was correctly decrypted. The only way it ...

Texas-based care provider HMG Healthcare has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of residents and employees, but says it has been unable to determine what types of data were stolen. HMG ...

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 ...

After relying on password managers for years, I've learned that even these trusted digital vaults aren't immune to failure. When your password manager crashes or locks you out unexpectedly, having a ...

It is important to ask the patient to sign a disclaimer that will protect your organization in the event of a breach. A version of this article was first published November 19, 2020, by HCPro's ...

Two specialty software makers have patched up a dispute that threatened to undermine the popular Zip file compression format. For more than a decade, Zip has been the most common format for shrinking ...