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 ...

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 ...

The laptop you’re working on might cost only a few hundred bucks, but if you use it to work with sensitive data–especially personal or business-related information–the data it contains is worth far ...

There is an abundance of free encryption tools, but if you’re running Windows, BitLocker is the only tool most people need, especially for home use. Although its encryption function is only available ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...