There’s an investigator I know, top of her profession, who once put her laptop in the trunk of a cab. By the time she reached her hotel, the laptop was gone. This happens thousands of times a year at ...

Overview Strong passwords, encryption, and updates are essential to protect your laptop from hackers.Physical safety matters ...

Welcome to Part 3 in my series on protecting your computer from prying eyes (Part 1, Part 2). In today's segment, we will be going over drive encryption using the TrueCrypt program on Windows OS.

To encrypt or not to encrypt, that is the question. Well, you should of course be encrypting data in motion particularly where it’s to be carried over a third party network such as the internet or the ...

Encryption is the secret sauce that keeps private information private as it travels across the internet. Apps like Apple’s iMessage use it to protect the contents of your communication, as do other ...

Accessing laptop files remotely is now easy. Cloud storage like Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive helps. Remote desktop software such as TeamViewer is also useful. Virtual Private Networks offer ...

From the files of Lessons Learned: The Department of Veterans Affairs will equip all of its computers with data encryption software in an effort to prevent the exposure of sensitive personal or agency ...