The ubiquitous email encryption schemes PGP and S/MIME are vulnerable to attack, according to a group of German and Belgian researchers who posted their findings on Monday. The weakness could allow a ...

Security researchers are warning anyone who uses PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or S/MIME for email encryption to disable the scheme in their email clients right away, and ...

The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

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Anyone using PGP to encrypt their email could have their messages exposed thanks to a severe vulnerability for which there's no proper fix. That's according to researchers in Germany, who said anyone ...

The cybersecurity community is bracing for impact after a team of researchers revealed on Sunday that critical vulnerabilities in the encrypted email program PGP ...

ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail users. The company is adding full PGP support so that you can ...

Security experts from Europe are warning users who encrypt their email with PGP and S/MIME, saying they are no longer safe to use. The critical flaw found in the two allows hackers to pull plaintext ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the U.S., our digital lifestyles and multiple email addresses have many people embracing email client applications that consolidate multiple email accounts, offer ...

The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy e-mail encryption last week left Network Associates, Inc. — the company he joined after selling it the rights to PGP in 1997 ...

Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption software, a further sign that privacy products are a tough sell. The Santa Clara ...

Right now there is no fix for the flaw, but there are steps PGP users can take to mitigate the risks. Researchers have announced that a serious flaw has been found in the technology people rely on to ...