Locking down individual files is great, but a blanket encryption will prevent anyone from getting their paws on your files.

I am grad student and do a lot of statistical analysis. I do most of my work on my personal laptop, a 2015 macbook pro with a pathetic 128 GB ssd. I need to get more storage (at least 500 GB) and am ...

Losing my iPhone or having my iPhone stolen is a nightmare of mine. I hope it never happens. That's why I try to prepare for the eventuality of having all my data gone in an instant. I back up my ...

Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, ...

End-to-end encryption is the main feature of Proton's software. The Swiss software developer started with Proton Mail a few years ago, and now operates a variety of useful apps that you can bundle ...

You can use Disk Utility to encrypt removable drives to prevent other people from accessing your data, but that requires you to navigate Disk Utility’s many options, menus, and buttons. In Mountain ...

WhatsApp is rolling out new end-to-end encryption backups for data being stored on Google Drive or iCloud. Users can get their random 64-digit keys that are used for them to handle their data ...

Richard O’Hara backs up regularly to an external hard drive, but that leaves him worried. “How can I make the data on the external drive secure in case it’s lost or stolen?” Back up and encrypt. Those ...