If you’ve signed in with a Microsoft account, your disk is likely already encrypted, and the key is likely already stored on ...

VeraCrypt is a free, open-source disk encryption software that is available for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. With VeraCrypt, you create a virtual encrypted disk on your internal drive that can then be ...

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 ...

As more companies disclose information losses and data theft, information technology companies have entered the market to sell products that encrypt entire hard drives. Those companies argue that ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

If you’re using encryption software to keep part of your computer’s hard drive private, you may have a problem, according to researchers at the University of Washington and British Telecommunications.

encrypted user folder on an external disk- can it be done? a user folder on an unencrypted disk works just fine. i managed to sort of do it by logging into a second empty account on the internal, ...

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 ...

Kudos to the Department of Justice for chasing and charging mortgage scam perpetrators. But who know that type of case would lead to having the courts decide whether prosecutors can force defendants ...

A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

Tony Padgett uses FileVault in macOS to encrypt his startup volume. However, it occurred to him that because he routinely updates a bootable clone of that drive, his clone remains unprotected at rest.

Apps like Microsoft Word and Google Desktop, which store data on unencrypted sections of the hard drive, can spill out information, even with encrypted files If you’re using encryption software to ...