Your Windows device is likely protected with a passcode — the PIN or password you enter when signing in. For most users, login security prevents unauthorized access ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...

For road warriors who work with large databases and other power- and space-hungry business applications, one hard drive in a laptop is often just not enough. Adding a second drive to the laptop not ...

Even without knowing your Windows password, intruders can easily gain access to files and passwords stored by Windows and other programs on your computer. They can do this by booting into their own ...

Real-life events — the disclosures from website WikiLeaks; Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified government documents to media outlets; credit card hijacks by the server load; and even Facebook’s ...

Thumb drives can be very handy for storing and transporting important business files and personal data. Because of their size, however, they are also quite easy to lose. Encrypting the thumb drive ...

If you want to share a drive but keep some files on it encrypted, you can easily do so with a couple of approaches in OS X. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Phil has “a client who needs to encrypt her hard drive,” and asked me for some advice. A single encrypted folder is good enough for most people, but a completely encrypted drive provides the strongest ...

We’ve all lost a flash drive or two. Whether it was a cheap USB drive containing some promotional material, or top secret one detailing the security protocol pertaining to a certain Queen of England’s ...

FileVault 2 not only encrypts your Mac’s internal drive, but it can also encrypt external drives connected via USB and FireWire (and we suspect you’ll be able to encrypt external drives connected via ...