Most of the attention on Windows 8.1 Preview emphasizes the many interface changes and new features. In the background, Windows 8.1 also offers a number of security enhancements that will help keep ...

Real-life events — the disclosures from website WikiLeaks; Edward Snowden’s leaks of classified government documents to media outlets; credit card hijacks by the server load; and even Facebook’s ...

Losing your USB flash drive before a big presentation is a terrible way to start a Monday. Losing a drive that also contains valuable personal data or confidential company information will ruin your ...

The worst thing about having a phone or laptop stolen isn’t necessarily the loss of the physical object itself, though there’s no question that that part sucks. It’s the amount of damage control you ...

If you’re locked out of your Windows 11/10 PC and you try to unlock the BitLocker encrypted drive but you receive the error message The BitLocker encryption on this ...

It doesn’t matter what your primary way of interacting with the digital world looks like, one thing that’s consistently on everyone’s mind is security. Your private information should be private. You ...

A Microsoft update that will disable the compromised RC4 stream cipher on Windows systems was released on Tuesday. The update is described in Security Advisory 2868725, but it seems to have gone ...

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VeraCrypt, a free yet generally secure encryption app, has, at long last, released a new update version 1.26.7. In case you are wondering, the last one was released over one and a half years ago. The ...

Following are the client versions of Windows 8 and 8.1. When upgrading to Windows 8 from an existing Windows operating system via download, Windows 8 retains the same word size. For example, a 32-bit ...

System Restore is a recovery feature in Windows 8 that allows you to restore your computer to a previous state. This is useful if your computer starts to function poorly or crashes and you cannot ...