In last week’s column, I explained the use and benefit (and some of the drawbacks) of turning on full-disk encryption (FDE) with Apple’s built-in FileVault 2. Readers had a few questions—I answered ...

If you keep a lot of valuable information on your Mac, encrypting it will help you keep the data safe. Apple’s built-in FileVault disk encryption on macOS is an effective way to do this. But what ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

Nowadays, the computer has a very important place in everybody’s life, as a personal gadget used for a lot of different things. Everything is digital, and it is stored on a computer’s hard disk or on ...

Creating Disk Images in OS X is relatively simple and an easy way to package items either for presentation, portability over electronic media, or encryption to protect data on otherwise unencrypted ...

An archive or disk image may have utility in speeding up a whole disk backup because the internal file structure is now hidden from the file system. Instead of numerous files and directories in the ...

Today Google launched Google Drive, a free-if-you-just-need-5GB-of-storage Dropbox-like service that lets you easily store and share files in the cloud. I like the idea of free cloud storage, but I’m ...

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 ...

In my last post, Hummingboard: Giving Raspberry Pi a run for less money, I mentioned using a free. open source Windows utility called Win32 Disk Imager to create a disk image of Debian GNU/Linux ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...