Laptops, external drives, and USB sticks are especially vulnerable to data theft, but with Windows and a few tools, you can ...

A built-in option with Windows 11 is to password-protect your hard drive. This is a great way to keep yourself protected, writes George Cox.

Want to prevent unauthorized access to your flash drives? Here's how to encrypt a USB drive on Windows 10 and safeguard its data from unsolicited access.

Fortunately, password-protecting a USB drive isn't complicated and can be done using built-in tools available on your PC or Mac, as well as dedicated third-party encryption apps.

How you go about this will depend on the software you're using to create the file in the first place. Some applications have password protection features built in, while in other cases you'll need ...

Once you encrypt a storage drive, you scramble the data and make it unreadable without your login password as long as the computer is powered off.

After so many high-profile data breaches, it’s time developers learned that storing passwords is a really bad idea. And there is a perfectly workable alternative.

Delivering on one of Proton Mail users’ top requests for years, Proton is starting the beta of its password manager. Naturally, coming from Proton, it features end-to-end encryption and is open ...

FileVault is a security feature on a Mac that encrypts all the files and data. We take a look at how to encrypt and protect your data with FileVault on a Mac.

Do you share PDF files with other people? Here's how to password protect a PDF on Windows for protection against unauthorized access, editing, and printing.

Encrypt and password-protect your database in Microsoft Access. Learn how to set a Password on an Access Database.