Your phone or tablet holds a lot of personal data about you and your life. Text messages, personal and business contacts, emails, credit card information, private photos and videos — all of these ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Starting with iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and macOS 13.1, all of which are expected to be released next week, users have the option to enable a new Advanced Data Protection feature that expands end-to-end ...

End-to-end encryption for Google's Messages app on Android is out of beta, meaning you can finally ensure no one can intercept your nudes between your phone and your partner's. Shine on, you dirty ...

A Reddit user ended up losing 3TB of games and backups after reinstalling Windows 11 because the operating system was lagging. Turns out, the BitLocker security was enabled by default after Microsoft ...

Ring has been in the news a few times for giving out video recordings to law enforcement, and reports of employees being able to watch video recordings at will. While Ring has denied it (as expected), ...

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Meta Platforms Inc. is finally upgrading Messenger to be end-to-end encrypted by default, ending a multiyear journey to make the messaging app secure for its users. The company announced the ...

This means if you lose your device, you can use methods like fingerprint, face, or the screen lock code of your previous ...

Google is rolling out what it calls client-side encryption (CSE), giving Workspace customers the ability to use their own encryption to shield their data before it reaches Google's servers. With ...

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