Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you’ll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you’ll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, ...

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 ...

Samsung and Wave Offer Today’s Mobile Professionals the Best Performance and Standards-Based Security in the Industry’s First Self-Encrypting Solid State Drive (SSD) Lee, MA and San Jose, CA — April ...

The Kraken ransomware, which targets Windows, Linux/VMware ESXi systems, is testing machines to check how fast it can encrypt ...

Some software-based encryption doesn’t protect data if PCs are in “sleep” or “hibernate” mode. Given the start up time of Windows, many users take full advantage of sleep/hibertate modes so this is a ...

Now that I am pretty much carrying my MBAir around with me all the time, I become worried about theft/lossage and the protection of my data. As a result, I am considering enabling full disk encryption ...

This Schneier post refers to this paper which notes many huge flaws in hardware based full disk encryption of SSDs. For my Samsung 840 EVO, the chief flaw is that the drive ships from the factory with ...

Using Amazon S3 cloud storage is easier due to four file system services and software from SubCloud, Jungle Disk, Elastic Drive and PersistanFS. SubCloud is the latest file system for S3 to emerge.

There’s a new, more secure way to encrypt files in Windows 11, but it’s only an option for building secure applications, not a replacement for BitLocker. Image: Ascannio/Adobe Stock Windows 10 already ...