While there’s no foolproof method for keeping everything on a wireless network completely secure, there are some things you can do to make it safer. In addition to setting up devices that don’t depend ...

With so many smart home brands in the market, it can be difficult to monitor each one for security. After all, even popular brands haven't been immune to issues. In fact, a 2022 study revealed several ...

The Secure Shell — SSH — allows you to send secure, encrypted, communications between computers that is nearly impossible to crack. Here's how to use it in macOS. Before personal computers, people ...

Much of the web has switched to secure links—that is, when you type in a site like pcworld.com, it serves its pages over an https (“hypertext transfer protocol secure”) connection rather than over non ...

Device security in today’s time has become paramount. Gone are those days when securing your computer addressed every security need. These days, hackers can access your wireless devices and exploit ...

Messaging app Signal is in the news, and not for anything positive. Defense Secretary and former Fox News contributor Pete Hegseth recently demonstrated how not to use a secure communications channel ...

Your web browser is your window to the outside world, but it goes two ways—it’s also the window through which viruses, malware and other nasties can get access to ...

The iPhone offers strong end-to-end encryption for all your data, and that's a great feature to have on the most important computer in your life. But that encryption is only as good as the PIN or ...