For most Internet users, gone are the days when you backed up files to an external drive or home server. Instead, most of us rely on cloud storage to secure sensitive files, like banking information, ...

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 ...

If you want to keep your business’s data safe, encryption is essential. By encrypting files directly, you ensure that they can’t be opened without a password — protecting the files from hackers and ...

After reading my article on encrypting sensitive data, Ian Cooper asked if it was safe “to use one of these encryption tools in conjunction with an online backup service?” [Have a tech question? Ask ...

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 ...