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

Encrypting your sensitive data is important, but not all encryption tools are the same. Last week we asked you for your favorites, and then we looked at the top five file encryption tools and put them ...

Encryption is an interesting thing. The first time I saw encryption in action was on a friend’s Gentoo Linux laptop that could only boot if the USB key with the boot partition and decryption key was ...

I'm thinking about how I secure my portable and external drives and wonder how others are doing it. Long ago I started using TrueCrypt then VeraCrypt to encrypt entire drives before using them for ...

How to encrypt your files and folders on Mac? If you have a Mac from late 2017 or later (with a T2 security chip or Apple silicon), then your system drive contents are encrypted by default. However, ...

Abrham Sorecha asked how to password-protect a folder. You can’t effectively password-protect a folder without encrypting it. And strictly speaking, you can’t ...

A new security audit has found critical vulnerabilities in VeraCrypt, an open-source, full-disk encryption program that’s the direct successor of the widely popular, but now defunct, TrueCrypt. Users ...