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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Android smartphones and tablets don't naturally support ZIP, RAR, or TAR formats. Luckily, there are several workarounds and apps that can help with this issue enabling you to read files in these ...

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 ...

A great feature of ZIP files is that you can add a password to them as an extra layer of security. This way, if an unauthorized party gains access to the file, they won’t be able to view or extract ...

Password-protected ZIP archives are common means of compressing and sharing sets of files—from sensitive documents to malware samples to even malicious files (i.e. phishing "invoices" in emails). But, ...

At the top, you will find three main options—Add, Convert, and Extract. Selecting the Add option allows you to archive files, ...

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 ...