A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. tomorrow plans to announce a petabyte-size storage array with native encryption, but some users with high security needs said they are uneasy about the possibility of ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, security firm Sophos unveiled a new version of its enterprise-class SafeGuard disk encryption app for the Mac. Simply called SafeGuard Disk Encryption for Mac, Sophos’s new app is targeted ...

There are several options available for securing the contents of documents when transferring them between computers, each of which may have its own benefits and drawbacks. Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

The latest version of the MySQL database variant has table-level encryption, courtesy of Google, but it won't guard against the most common database attacks MariaDB, the binary-compatible fork of ...