You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

August 25, 2007 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Create your own secret store of files on a separate hard drive partition that no one can see or access using ...

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 ...

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 ...

The fsckin w/ linux blog has a handy step-by-step tutorial on how to set up an encrypted partition in Ubuntu Linux systems to secure sensitive data on your hard drive. The method detailed requires ...

Windows 11/10 offers an in-built encryption solution — BitLocker — which makes sure the drive if used anywhere else, will not be readable. However, like many other solutions, it is a proprietary ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

Encrypting your Mac’s entire hard drive—making it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the correct encryption key (a sort of software passcode)—is a perfectly marvelous idea to maintain the privacy ...

Kind of a stupid question, but I wanted to double-check before I commit to full-disk encryption. I have a Macbook Pro with a Windows 7 partition that I use 90% of the time. But I store my music and ...

If you have the BitLocker recovery key, you can unlock the BitLocker encrypted hard drive partition through the Control Panel. However, if your Windows OS is corrupted and you cannot boot into Windows ...

Abrham Sorecha asked how to password-protect a folder. You can’t effectively password-protect a folder without encrypting it. And strictly speaking, you can’t ...

USB sticks have offered pretty much the same functionality over the past year or so. So when Kingston announced a new DataTraveler Locker USB Flash Drive that offered partitioning capability, I took ...