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Computers house so much of our personal data that it’s essential to set up protective measures in case of cyber attack or mechanical failure. These five must-do steps dramatically increase the odds ...

On the surface, the critical “Shellshock” bug revealed this week sounds devastating. By exploiting a bug in the Bash shell command line tool found in Unix-based systems, attackers can run code on your ...

All computers have some sort of a storage device, whether it's a phone, an iPad or a super-computer at NASA headquarters. They all have something that stores information. In the “olden times,” ...

For those looking for the ultimate in portability and security in their computing, there's the option of running a system straight from a USB drive you can carry around in your pocket. Plug this into ...

No one enjoys taking a computer, smartphone or tablet to be fixed, but at some point we all face the prospect of schlepping some broken gear into a repair shop. Complicating matters is that our ...

To protect our private communications from future attacks by quantum computers, Verizon is trialing the use of next-generation cryptography keys to protect the virtual private networks (VPNs) that are ...

Quantum computers won’t be able to break encryption tools in 2024, but that hasn’t stopped security experts preparing for a time when quantum devices will be powerful enough to crack the algorithms ...