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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re like me, you’ve taken to carrying important data on USB sticks or flash drives. They’re handy, you can use them on any PC, and with built-in encryption even if you lost them it was no big ...

Data security is at the front of many minds in the business world. With the ease that data can be copied to and from portable devices today and the fact that these devices are easily lost or stolen ...

Allowing BitLocker without a TPM will require unlocking the operating system drive at startup with either a password or startup key on a USB flash drive. This option ...

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 ...

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 ...

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...

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 ...

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 ...