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 ...

Protecting your computer's data is essential to maintaining your physical and digital privacy. With the increasing amount of sensitive information stored on computer systems, you should take the ...

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...

Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

One of the best ways to protect your privacy is to encrypt important information on your computer. Whether you need to send personal information to someone, or simply want to make sure that no one who ...

Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a low-effort way to ensure that if someone were to get ahold of one of your drives while unmounted or a Mac while powered down, the contents on the drive would be ...

You can use Disk Utility to encrypt removable drives to prevent other people from accessing your data, but that requires you to navigate Disk Utility’s many options, menus, and buttons. In Mountain ...