Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is ...

Notepad text files are very handy and useful for noting things down. But have you ever thought about the security of the notepad files? Security is a must, and a Notepad text file offers no security ...

Batch files have a BAT extension and, somewhat similarly to executable files, are used to run system commands through the Windows Command Prompt. Unlike an executable file, a batch file can be opened ...

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

We've shown you before how you can protect any sensitive files stored on Dropbox using TrueCrypt or an encrypted zip file, but here's an even quicker shortcut that encrypts (and decrypts) files or ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...