How to Encrypt External Hard Drives and USB Flash Drives

Protect your personal files from theft with data encryption. Secure system drives, external USBs, and cloud storage using ...
SlashGear

3 Ways To Password Protect Your USB Drive (And Why You Should)

USB drives offer unmatched convenience and portability, making them a go-to solution for transferring files between computers, storing backups, or carrying sensitive information on the go. However, ...
BGR

Are Encrypted USB Drives Actually Worth It?

As portable storage declines in favor of cloud services, the question of whether an encrypted USB drive is worth it has moved from convenience to security. Cloud storage, AirDrop, and messaging apps ...
Forbes

USB Gets The Thumbs Up With Kingston’s IronKey Encrypted Drives

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 ...
Ars Technica

Does ransomware (encryption) damage a file the moment it's touched?

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 ...
Dark Reading

SPYRUS Adds Hydra PC ViP USB Encryption Drives To Government-Approved DAR Offering

San Jose, California, March 30, 2009 " SPYRUS, Inc., today announced that its Hydra PC Virus Protected (ViP) USB file encryption drives have been approved by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Data ...
Dark Reading

SPYRUS Unveils Family Of USB Encryption Devices

San Jose, CA - January 14, 2009 - SPYRUS, Inc. today announced the Hydra Privacy Card' (Hydra PC(tm)) family of USB encrypting devices is immune from USB autorun ...

How to Get a 5TB Portable External Hard Drive for Next to Nothing, Thanks to Amazon’s Record Low on WD My Passport

With plenty of space, the WD 5TB My Passport Portable External Hard Drive stores your photos, videos, music, and documents in ...
techtarget

How to use and manage BitLocker encryption

When Microsoft introduced Windows Vista, one of its most anxiously anticipated features was its encryption capability called BitLocker. Many mistakenly refer to BitLocker as whole-disk encryption, but ...
PC World

How to encrypt files in Windows

Most of us have some rather sensitive files on our PCs. Whether it’s our tax returns, financial records, password lists (seriously, just use a password manager already), or just files you don’t want ...
Mashable

This $60 flash drive has military-grade encryption

The following content is brought to you by Mashable partners. If you buy a product featured here, we may earn an affiliate commission or other compensation. TL;DR: Keep your sensitive data safe with ...