Microsoft's Windows operating system and Office suite have some built-in encryption features. Here's how to use them.

EncryptOnClick is a portable and a simple-to-use encryption software for Windows, that lets you encrypt and password protect files and data in a click.

Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

Learn how to use EFS Encryption to secure files, via Advanced File Attributes or using the cipher command line tool and make them inaccessible to others.

Encryption commands such as gpg can be used to secure your most sensitive files on Linux systems.

Learn to secure multiple documents by encrypting compressed files on various OSes using a password.

VeraCrypt is capable of creating encrypted containers of fixed size, which can help obscure the size of the files in the container. There’s a good tutorial on VeraCrypt’s website that explains ...

Researchers examined how quickly ransomware encrypts files - in some cases, it just takes a matter of minutes.