Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X can encrypt files and protect them from the prying eyes of thieves and snoops. Vista's new BitLocker feature and Mac OS X's FileVault are especially useful to those of ...

Computer scientists have discovered a novel way to bypass the encryption used in programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault and then view the contents of supposedly secure files. In a ...

Encrypting your Mac’s entire hard drive—making it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the correct encryption key (a sort of software passcode)—is a perfectly marvelous idea to maintain the privacy ...

Sure, you can keep your files secure with BitLocker, available for certain versions of Vista. And Mac users have FileVault, which is free with Mac OS X. Personally, I like TrueCrypt. Here's why.Just ...

The same group of researchers that published a paper last February detailing how their team hacked into and recovered data from a group of supposedly secure laptops have now released the source code ...

Passware, a vendor of forensics tools for recovering data for law enforcement, has issued a warning that its forensics tools can bypass the security of FileVault disk encryption in Mac OS X if the ...