External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files; they can be taken from home ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. In Information Technology, USB password protection is a phrase used to describe ...

Flash drives, thumb drives, USB sticks: whatever you want to call them, they’re more than keychain accessories; they can be used to carry essential information that you wouldn’t want to put online.

Enddylopez asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum about password protecting a flash drive. If a flash drive contains sensitive information–such as bank account statements, credit card ...

Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

I-O Data Japan has recently launched a new USB flash drive with some particular security features; the TB-PW. In addition to the ‘mainstream’ 128-bit AES encryption found on most secure drives, this ...

After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about the security of my files. Is there a program, or a clever combination of programs and the autorun.inf file that would ...

In this article, I will tell you how to lock your hard drive with a password using windows in-built feature BitLocker. This is a great way to protect your files from prying eyes and keep your system ...

A simple Wireshark analysis was enough to subvert the gadget, which uses iris identification to protect the drive. A USB stick dubbed eyeDisk that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive claims to ...

Chrome OS is a great option for a secure computer, and it seems Google is working on a new security feature. A recent commit has revealed “USBGuard,” a new security option in Chrome OS which protects ...