You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

Create your own secret store of files on a separate hard drive partition that no one can see or access using open source tools. Techie Adam Heckler used the excellent GParted partition manager and ...

Kind of a stupid question, but I wanted to double-check before I commit to full-disk encryption. I have a Macbook Pro with a Windows 7 partition that I use 90% of the time. But I store my music and ...

Most file, directory and partition encryption products rely on private key scenarios, encrypting data files using a single secret key, which only the owner of the data knows. There are two general ...

I have a client who may have hosed themselves. They encrypted their filesystem in a Debian build. Nothing went wrong until they rebooted it. Now it just hangs asking for a password. When you enter in ...

Encrypting your Mac’s entire hard drive—making it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the correct encryption key (a sort of software passcode)—is a perfectly marvelous idea to maintain the privacy ...

Data has never been such a traveler. In our mobile devices, flash drives, computer desktops, on the Internet and in the multitude of cloud services, data is constantly being downloaded, uploaded, or ...

The laptop you’re working on might cost only a few hundred bucks, but if you use it to work with sensitive data–especially personal or business-related information–the data it contains is worth far ...

A better alternative is to protect the contents of a storage device using a reliable encryption utility, making it almost impossible for a third party to access your data files. There are several ways ...

There are several ways to do this — some utilities will encrypt single data files, while others may encrypt directories or archives, and a few will encrypt a complete drive partition. What you choose ...