External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files; they can be taken from home ...

Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

If you’re like me, you’ve taken to carrying important data on USB sticks or flash drives. They’re handy, you can use them on any PC, and with built-in encryption even if you lost them it was no big ...

After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about the security of my files. Is there a program, or a clever combination of programs and the autorun.inf file that would ...

In this article, I will tell you how to lock your hard drive with a password using windows in-built feature BitLocker. This is a great way to protect your files from prying eyes and keep your system ...

The humble USB drive needn't be a security risk if you have the right precautions in place. In an age of online cloud storage, you’d be forgiven for thinking that physical storage media no longer had ...

I have all but moved on from password to passkeys, where possible, as a safer alternative to typing a long string of characters. But there's a caveat: if someone gains physical access to your computer ...

Enddylopez asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum about password protecting a flash drive. If a flash drive contains sensitive information–such as bank account statements, credit card ...

There's nothing more innocuous-looking than a USB flash drive. But, as anyone with some basic cybersecurity knowledge knows, they can be one of the easiest ways to infect your devices. The Buffalo ...