When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

We don’t know exactly what he said, but in 1971, Ray Tomlinson used Arpanet to send the first email ever. You can bet he was only thinking about getting the message to its destination, not about ...

Abstract: To support secure data mining and privacy-preserving computation, partial access and selective computation on encrypted data are desirable. Functional encryption (FE) is a new paradigm of ...

Tiny Quantum Dots Unlock the Future of Unbreakable Encryption Aug. 23, 2025 By using quantum dots and smart encryption protocols, researchers overcame a 40-year barrier in quantum communication, ...

Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) is widely used in various industries because it effectively addresses the predicament of isolated data island. However, eavesdroppers is capable of inferring user ...

CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of "cyber" operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR and Base64, more complex encryption ...