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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

★★★★☆ No one but you will access your files if they’re on a Kingston Ironkey Keypad 200. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The best way to be sure no one is accessing your files is to lock them on an ...

Dear CIOs, CTOs and IT professionals, A few weeks ago, the U.S. military wisely instituted a short-term ban on the use of USB drives after a worm infiltrated Army networks when a user plugged in a USB ...