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 ...

One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple’s ...

Last April, McAfee and Datamonitor released a report called “Datagate: The Next Inevitable Corporate Disaster?” The report held some disturbing statistics about data breaches: * More than 60% of ...

Microsoft’s full-disk encryption feature is not being widely used, even where it is part of the Windows operating system, according to a new survey released by security vendor Opswat. Microsoft added ...

Lost devices and data theft remain a major worry for enterprise IT firms. One way to protect against data loss is full-device encryption, now made easier to implement via self-encrypting hard drives ...

Can you remotely unlock an encrypted hard disk? [Jyn] needed to unlock their home server after it rebooted even if they weren’t home. Normally, they used Tailscale to remote in, but you can’t use ...

Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Researchers at Princeton have found a way to steal the hard drive encryption key used by hard-drive encryptors like Windows Vista BitLocker or Apple's FileVault If you think that encrypting your ...

If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. They’ve discovered a way ...

EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA: UPEK, the leader in enterprise and consumer biometric fingerprint solutions, and WinMagic, the innovative leader in disk encryption, have announced their Biometric ...

I recently received a new desktop at work. Your usual mid- to low-high range Dell Optiplex 7020. i7-4xxx CPU, 8GB RAM, 500GB hard drive. Nothing to call home about, but a far cry from the C2D laptop I ...

If you think that encrypting your laptop’s hard drive will keep your data safe from prying eyes, you may want to think again, according to researchers at Princeton University. They’ve discovered a way ...