Anyone using PGP to encrypt their email could have their messages exposed thanks to a severe vulnerability for which there's no proper fix. That's according to researchers in Germany, who said anyone ...

The ubiquitous email encryption schemes PGP and S/MIME are vulnerable to attack, according to a group of German and Belgian researchers who posted their findings on Monday. The weakness could allow a ...

Security experts from Europe are warning users who encrypt their email with PGP and S/MIME, saying they are no longer safe to use. The critical flaw found in the two allows hackers to pull plaintext ...

The cybersecurity community is bracing for impact after a team of researchers revealed on Sunday that critical vulnerabilities in the encrypted email program PGP ...

Security researchers are warning anyone who uses PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) or S/MIME for email encryption to disable the scheme in their email clients right away, and ...

A warning has been issued by European security researchers about critical vulnerabilities discovered in PGP/GPG and S/MIME email encryption software that could reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails ...

In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from ...

The National Security Agency has been known to intercept and collect emails, and with Donald Trump as president, privacy likely isn’t going to get better. For example, he said that Apple should help ...

If you use PGP or S/MIME for email encryption you should immediately disable it in your email client. Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability they’re calling EFAIL that exposes the ...

Developers of the popular Enigmail email security extension for Thunderbird have fixed several issues that could have exposed messages users believed to be encrypted. Enigmail provides a graphical ...

This week’s headlines about newfound vulnerabilities in the PGP and S/MIME email-encryption programs really shocked me—not because the vulnerabilities (dubbed EFAIL … get it?) seemed so dangerous but ...

Right now there is no fix for the flaw, but there are steps PGP users can take to mitigate the risks. Researchers have announced that a serious flaw has been found in the technology people rely on to ...