It doesn’t matter what your primary way of interacting with the digital world looks like, one thing that’s consistently on everyone’s mind is security. Your private information should be private. You ...

When Microsoft announced that Windows Vista was going to be available in multiple editions, curiosity turned toward the higher-end versions of Vista targeted at corporate environments (Vista ...

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BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature that integrates with the operating system and addresses the threats of data theft or exposure from lost, stolen, or inappropriately ...

Microsoft, Check Point and McAfee provide three whole-disk encryption options; we examine each and choose the best of the bunch. Data is increasingly mobile. More and more, laptops outnumber deskbound ...

Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin your ...

Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X can encrypt files and protect them from the prying eyes of thieves and snoops. Vista's new BitLocker feature and Mac OS X's FileVault are especially useful to those of ...

New to Windows, albeit in the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Vista only, is BitLocker drive encryption technology. Using either a TPM module, or a USB key, it allows you to completely encrypt the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Roy, the unsympathetic technical support character in the cult ...

Security researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have discovered a flaw in several manufacturers’ solid state hard drive firmware that can be exploited to read data from self-encrypting ...

I'm not sure if anyone saw the news, but apparently Crucial's and Samsung's self-encrypting drives have very weak keys or key verification and is easily bypassed to get access to the encrypted data.

Researchers at the Netherland’s Radboud University have uncovered serious security issues with several solid-state drives that use hardware-based encryption—vulnerabilities that would allow an ...