You can’t beat flash drives for convenience, but you’ll pay a hefty price for it — and we’re not talking money. If you should lose that drive, anyone can ...

A. For all intents and purposes, today’s USB flash memory drives (a.k.a. thumb drives or jump drives) are the equivalent to the old school floppy disk on steroids. If you want to transfer files from ...

Last week, we looked at why you should not store a wide open, anyone can read it file on your computer or phone that contains the username, password and security questions for every online account you ...

Encrypting files, folders, and drives on your computer means that no one else can make sense of the data they contain without a particular decryption key—which in most cases is a password known only ...

In macOS Mojave, you can choose to encrypt and decrypt disks on the fly right from the desktop. Using this convenient Finder option, we're going to show you how to encrypt a USB flash drive (or "thumb ...

In late 2008, the Strategic Command's Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations put in place an immediate ban on the use of flash drives -- USB storage devices that have become the modern version of ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE — Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will push capacity to 200 Gbytes and beyond while adding encryption and flash memory to its 2.5-inch hard disk drives in 2007, the company announced ...

★★★★☆ No one but you will access your files if they’re on a Kingston Ironkey Keypad 200. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The best way to be sure no one is accessing your files is to lock them on an ...

If you are in the market for a titanium USB drive complete with encryption technology in the form of AES-256, you may be interested in a new Kickstarter campaign by Lingg Innovations from Italy.

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