As more companies disclose information losses and data theft, information technology companies have entered the market to sell products that encrypt entire hard drives. Those companies argue that ...

encrypted user folder on an external disk- can it be done? a user folder on an unencrypted disk works just fine. i managed to sort of do it by logging into a second empty account on the internal, ...

One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple’s ...

Protecting your computer's data is essential to maintaining your physical and digital privacy. With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored on computer systems, you should take the ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

If you’re using encryption software to keep part of your computer’s hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications.

Lock down your data without paying a performance penalty with Seagate s Momentus 5400 FDE.2 2.5-in. secure hard-disk drive with DriveTrust (see the figure). It incorporates full-disk, 128-bit Advanced ...

I recently bought a new 1 TB NVMe SSD (970 Evo Plus) to upgrade from my current 256 GB M.2 SATA SSD. The current disk is LUKS encrypted using the default options were when I originally installed ...

In last week’s newsletter, security expert Sean Steele of infoLock Technologies gave some pointers of what to look for when you are choosing a full disk encryption solution for your company. This week ...

If you want to encrypt the contents of an external hard drive to protect its data in case of loss or theft, you’ve got a lot of options. You can create an encrypted disk image using Apple’s Disk ...

Kudos to the Department of Justice for chasing and charging mortgage scam perpetrators. But who know that type of case would lead to having the courts decide whether prosecutors can force defendants ...

A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...