OK. We checked our UNIX resources. We read the email we received. And we now believe we have the full story on the Drop Box security leak described here yesterday. It's not pretty. But we're hoping it ...

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Canny Windows users who've spotted a mysterious folder on hard drives after applying last week's security patches for the operating system can rest assured – it's ...

A recent Windows security update that creates an ‘inetpub’ folder has introduced a new weakness allowing attackers to prevent the installation of future updates. After people installed this month's ...

Samsung Secure Folder is an encrypted space on your smartphone to store files, images, videos, and apps for your eyes only. The service keeps all your sensitive files private, giving you peace of mind ...

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 ...

A security researcher has found a way to bypass the "Controlled Folder Access" feature added in Windows 10 in October 2017, which Microsoft has touted as a reliable anti-ransomware defensive measure.

There's a security app on the Google Play Store that works with any Samsung device as long as it runs Android 7 or later. A security app that, to date, has been downloaded an astonishing 1 billion ...

Many a time, you need to change the ownership of a file or folder to another user. There can be many reasons to do that — transferring files to another user, an old account is removed, and all files ...

Ian Hamilton discovered an apparent security leak in Mac OS X that we confirmed. To see it, try the following: Drag an item to the Drop Box folder of a user other than yourself. You will get a message ...