Have a private document on your desktop OS? Here's how to keep it secure on Linux, MacOS, and Windows.

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.

Click Turn on auto-unlock next to an encrypted fixed drive to enable that feature. When encrypting a drive, BitLocker lets you pick whether you want to encrypt the space in use or the entire disk.

One of the best ways to secure a laptop or desktop computer is to encrypt your hard drive or, failing that, a partition. We go over how you can encrypt a Drive on Linux using VeraCrypt, a free ...

Encrypting files with passwords is the first step to protect sensitive information on all platforms. Be it Windows, macOS, or Linux, every OS provides a different way to keep your data protected. In ...

How to encrypt hard drives on Windows 10 When it comes to disk encryption on Windows 10, BitLocker Device Encryption is the tool that Microsoft provides.

One of the more interesting–and less visible–new features in Mountain Lion is the ability to encrypt almost any disk. OS X has long offered the ability to encrypt your startup disk using Apple ...