If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Let’s take a look at a typical scenario where you can encounter ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

BitLocker is the most common way to encrypt your Windows PC to protect it against data theft in the event that someone steals ...

With so much hacking, scamming, theft, and spying in the digital world, encryption is becoming more popular. You see it in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, in secure connections to websites ...

Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

Encryption is a key component of everyday life for most people, whether messaging on WhatsApp, shopping online, reading articles over a secure HTTPS connection, or protecting their passwords when ...

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 ...

Encryption is basically jumbling of your data in a format that is unreadable. So that, even if a hacker is able to fetch your data, they won’t be able to make sense of it. Device Encryption takes the ...

The world’s six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications (download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid ...

To paraphrase Fox Mulder, trust no self-encrypting SSD. As of the latest Windows 10 update, Microsoft’s BitLocker encryption tool that’s built into Pro and Enterprise versions will no longer assume ...

Active Cypher built a mini-quantum computer (repurposed hardware running quantum algorithms) to prove that conventional encryption (RSA + AES) is nearing the end. This is designed to be a wake-up call ...