Any time you have a text file on a Linux system that you want to keep private regardless of the privileges that other users with accounts on the system may have, you can resort to encryption.

Not everything you want to keep secret or secure is a text file or email ... The dm-crypt utility is standard to Linux and is its built-in disk encryption engine (I’ll get to more on that ...

In his definitive text, Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier states, “Software encryption is scary.” What he means is, it is difficult to design truly secure encryption software for computers running ...

Cybersecurity firm Profero has discovered that the RansomExx gang does not correctly lock Linux files during encryption, leading to potentially corrupted files. In a new report by Profero ...