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 ...

I will be traveling in Chile and Australia in the coming weeks doing photography work. There is a non-zero chance my laptop could be stolen. There's nothing particularly sensitive on it, but I bet I ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

The new hard drives also include software from McAfee for the enterprisewide management of laptops with Seagate security. Seagate's new Momentus FDE (full disk encryption) laptop drives are available ...

If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. They’ve discovered a way ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Linux is only as secure as you make it.

Seagate Technology LLC, the world's largest hard drive maker, announced Monday the first manufacturer to sell laptop PCs with its new built-in encryption technology. The hard drives, to be available ...

Fujitsu's new MHZ2 CJ series of 2.5-inch, 7,200-rpm SATA mobile hard drives include AES-256 encryption to help protect data on the over 700,000 laptop PCs which are lost or stolen every year, said ...

If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. If you think that ...

Hard drive encryption is nothing but the organized corruption of data. The technology hit the spotlight in 2006 when the infamous VA laptop was stolen which contained personally identifiable ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...