In 1996, I registered my first website, Vaughan-Nichols & Associates. After setting up the site, one of the first things I did was to secure connections with a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate.

Machine automation threatens to eliminate any residual human element left in mass surveillance, distilling it down to algorithms and search tools watching for keywords. Depending on where you stand on ...

Encryption is a cornerstone of digital security, but can be pretty difficult to understand, especially for all of us non-math people. Generally speaking, encryption safeguards sensitive data from ...

Whether we like it or not, we're all spending a lot more time on the internet thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. We're all working, learning, playing, and shopping on our computers and smartphones these ...

No one wants to be spied on. A VPN is one piece of the cyber security puzzle to help protect your personal information—and you should install it on all of your devices. In a very simple sense, VPNs, ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

The best VPNs can make your online life more private with software that's convenient and cheap — sometimes even free. While keeping your IP address invisible, you can use your VPN to explore streaming ...

Using two VPNs must be better than using one, right? Not exactly. Having two VPNs active instead of one may seem like a good way to double up on security, but there's more than one reason why this can ...