When disposing of old hard drives, it is important to ensure that no company data remains on the drive for someone to find and exploit. One way to delete data is to format a drive, using the same ...

When you sell a computer, it is always in your best interest to completely erase all of the data on your hard drive before the computer changes hands. Even small, seemingly inconsequential pieces of ...

If you’re ready to invest in a new computer, and your thinking about donating your old computer to a charity, local group or school, it’s important to make sure your computer’s hard drive is ...

Since the Help Desk launched last year, we've received loads of requests for the best ways to preserve different kinds of data in our lives: think voice mails, conversations and even cherished home ...

OW Shredder is all about removing files from your hard drive without leaving traces behind. The only feature we would have liked it to have i to support batch processing, and that is a disappointment.

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...

Hard disks contain a lot more than just files and folders. They may store sensitive information, login credentials, and ...

Data Remanence refers to the remnants of (magnetized) data that are left even after safely wiping data from your hard disks or pen drives. Sometimes, even formatting a disk does not remove the entire ...

Toshiba on Tuesday introduced a new hard drive feature that can wipe out data after the storage devices are powered down. The Wipe feature in Toshiba’s SED (Self-Encrypting Drives) will allow for ...

For mobile computing, the MQ01ABU***W series provides self-encryption, cryptographic-erase and TCG-Opal protocol support in a slim 7mm height with up to 500GB of storage capacity. The MQ01ABU***W ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) have a small security problem: they're tough to erase. That warning comes from researchers at the University of California at San Diego. "Sanitization is well-understood for ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...