Are you trying to open a password-protected PDF or ZIP file? Then, you already know how frustrating it can be. You try out different tools, and the result is a ...

That question can be interpreted two ways. Do you want to hack into someone else’s private files? Or do you want to avoid a form of encryption that won’t give you much protection? Since I believe that ...

Cloudflare CTO John Graham-Cumming has successfully cracked and decrypted a 30-year-old ZIP file, and has written a blog post about how he did it. John Graham-Cumming's blog: Cracking an old ZIP file ...

We all use archive file formats like .zip, .rar in order to employ lossless data compression. In a single archive file, we can add several files and folders and considerably reduce the combined size ...

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users’ zip files, even when they’re protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday. Compressing file contents ...