You can wipe a hard drive much easier now with the help of your Windows 10 Settings menu and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode. It's also possible to wipe a Mac data drive through the ...

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

One of the security features included with many motherboards is a BIOS lock. With a BIOS lock in place, your computer won't boot into the operating system without the password, BIOS settings cannot be ...

Yesterday's article on securely erasing a hard disk in preparation for system resale prompted some further discussion. Several readers suggested using the Apple Drive Setup Utility to write zeroes to ...

OW Shredder is all about removing files from your hard drive without leaving traces behind. The only feature we would have liked it to have i to support batch processing, and that is a disappointment.

Toshiba today announced it has developed a new technique, dubbed Wipe, that will make self-encrypting drives even more secure by automatically erasing data upon removing them from a system or when the ...

Redkey is a small USB key equipped with “military grade security” enabling you to wipe data from your computer easily, effectively and securely. The third version is now easier to use securely wipes ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...

Data Remanence refers to the remnants of (magnetized) data that are left even after safely wiping data from your hard disks or pen drives. Sometimes, even formatting a disk does not remove the entire ...

Phoenix Technologies has announced that they are currently working with Fujitsu in an effort to bring users equipped with Fujitsu’s new full disk encryption (FDE) 2.5″ 7200RPM SATA hard disk drive the ...