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

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt ...

The error “Windows RE cannot be enabled on a volume with BitLocker Drive Encryption Enabled” prevents you from enabling the Windows Recovery Environment. WinRE is ...

Windows 11, Windows 10, and even older versions come pre-installed with a security and encryption feature called BitLocker. It enables users to encrypt everything on the drive where Windows is ...

The encryption program is included in Windows 8 and 8.1 Pro editions, which means anyone who switched to Windows 8 during the $40 upgrade deal has BitLocker on their PC.

USB drives, external HDDs, and memory cards—remains the go-to for transferring and backing up data. But these devices are also among the easies ...

Many users prefer to encrypt their entire storage drive, considering it one of the simplest and most effective encryption methods, but it's possible that you don't need to do that. It might not ...

Readers let us know that some PCs can't engage in the automatic encryption Windows 11 attempts to do.

Today, Windows 11 Home encrypts data using "device encryption" and Windows 11 Pro typically uses "BitLocker." BitLocker uses the more elaborate encryption method and is more complicated to turn off.

Fear not, quantum computers won't break data encryption anytime soon Current data encryption techniques may fend off the threat of quantum computing for some time to come ...

If you want to password-protect your PDF documents from outside interference, then maybe you should give PDF Page Lock a test run. It is a free encryption software that lets you easily encrypt PDF ...