The researchers warn that journalists, political activists, and whistleblowers face the most risk from the flaw; for years, PGP has been a go-to tool to secure sensitive emails with a form of ...

Long has the war for email privacy been fought – and it looks we’ll keep fighting far into the future. People have always wanted to make sure than only the recipient can read email messages. Some ...

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 ...

You can now instruct Facebook to encrypt every email it sends to you so nobody — not even the NSA — is likely to be able to read your messages anytime soon. All you have to do is import your public ...

Researchers at the Munster University of Applied Sciences discovered vulnerabilities in the Pretty Good Protection (PGP) and S/MIME technologies used to encrypt email. The problem resides in how email ...

If you’ve been using PGP or S/MIME to securely send and receive sensitive emails, you’ll want to stop using them right away, as a group of European researchers have found vulnerabilities in both ...

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

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

If you use PGP or S/MIME for email encryption you should immediately disable it in your email client. Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability they’re calling EFAIL that exposes the ...

The email, which was a relatively inconsequential congratulations to Greenwald on winning the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage, raised questions about Radack or ...

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 ...

A warning has been issued by European security researchers about critical vulnerabilities discovered in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption software that could reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails ...