Encryption is ubiquitous in modern computing, from the padlock icon in a web browser showing a secure connection to the end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp. If these exchanges are worth protecting (and ...

Is your Mac running slow? Why does this happen? It may be due to the age of your computer. Also, FileVault encryption might be dramatically slowing your Mac’s performance without you realizing it.

Call me paranoid, but I'd like to protect my data in the event of a hard drive failure. I've got an iMac (2011) and it's got a 1 TB HD inside. I'm debating turning ON FileVault. If the hard drive ...

Yesterday, I wrote a tip about using FileVault 2 encryption in Mac OS X Lion to encrypt a variety of external devices and SD cards. Although I like FileVault 2, I mentioned that it had some caveats.