Disk encryption is absolute magic to most non-mathematicians. And like any complex technology, it leads to uncomfortable questions. Does encrypting a disk make it less likely that data can be ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. In a ...

Windows 11/10 offers an in-built encryption solution — BitLocker — which makes sure the drive if used anywhere else, will not be readable. However, like many other solutions, it is a proprietary ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Full Disk Encryption (FDE) is one of the most effective ways to protect confidential data on laptops, but there's a dirty little secret that many FDE vendors don't mention: When an encrypted hard ...

If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Let’s take a look at a typical scenario where you can encounter ...

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about encryption and what the FBI terms its "Going Dark" problem---its inability to read the communications of surveillance targets because more and more ...