Companies relying on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) to secure data stored on their employees’ laptops should be aware that this technology is not immune to attack and should carefully consider whether ...

Notebook drives are going to get spiffed in 2007. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, the hard-drive division of the Japanese electronics giant, will sell hybrid hard drives that cut battery ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced availability of what it is touting as the highest-capacity, highest-performing notebook hard drive. The Travelstar 7K200 doubles the capacity of its ...

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Hard drive encryption is nothing but the organized corruption of data. The technology hit the spotlight in 2006 when the infamous VA laptop was stolen which contained personally identifiable ...

Self-encrypting hard drives are those with encryption technology built into the drive's controller ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit). They are designed to improve the security of data by ...

With so much hacking, scamming, theft, and spying in the digital world, encryption is becoming more popular. You see it in messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, in ...

I have a fresh install coming shortly. I am pondering encrypting the OS drive albeit I am not entirely sure what that achieves for me security wise on my desktop (with all the other drives not ...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop. I replaced its original spinning HDD with a brand new Samsung SSD 850 EVO drive, that was advertised as supporting hardware encryption. So now I'm trying to ...

Fujitsu's new MHZ2 CJ series of 2.5-inch, 7,200-rpm SATA mobile hard drives include AES-256 encryption to help protect data on the over 700,000 laptop PCs which are lost or stolen every year, said ...