Welcome to Part 3 in my series on protecting your computer from prying eyes (Part 1, Part 2). In today's segment, we will be going over drive encryption using the TrueCrypt program on Windows OS.

Encrypting a hard drive protects data and can be legally required, choose whole-drive encryption for the safest option. Back up important data, use Windows BitLocker or Veracrypt for encryption. On ...

Even if you never email sensitive information--social security numbers, banking info, business secrets, and so on--you should consider using encryption. Aside from capturing your email content and ...

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

PC-Encrypt ($49.95) creates encrypted file archives, and its companion program, A-Lock ($29.95), encrypts e-mail, as well as text in any program that supports Select All, Cut, and Paste commands. Free ...

Today, our most sensitive information is generally encrypted—from your personal messages, banking and health information to things like classified military documents and companies' trade secrets. But ...

Utimaco CTO Nils Gerhardt outlines the threat quantum computing poses to current methods of encryption, and suggests how cybersecurity can get ahead of the game. The US National Institute of Standards ...

Concerns have been raised around the default drive encryption applied with Windows 11 24H2 This is put in place when setting up new PCs, or with fresh installs of Windows 11 24H2 on existing devices ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Quantum computers can process large amounts of data based on quantum mechanics. What would ...