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You might have encountered encryption on messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. It is nothing but securing your messages. When your messages are encrypted, they can only be read by the ...

Sudden data loss is a stressful situation for any business and can strike at the most inconvenient of times. Data loss on local drives has always been an issue, and accidental deletion or disk ...

There are fewer things more valuable to most companies than their data. Customer records, analytics, financial documents—when such information is threatened with irrevocable destruction, it can be ...

If you've recently lost favorite photos and videos or important documents stored on a drive, you might be able to get them back with free data recovery software. It's all too easy to accidentally ...

If you accidentally delete important files or photos, your hard drive crashes, or some glitch damaged data on your SSD, all hope is seemingly lost. Fortunately, advanced data recovery software exists ...

BitLocker locked me out of my PC after a system update, but the recovery key saved me. I found it on my Microsoft account under the device’s details and used it to unlock each encrypted drive. It’s a ...

You've Lost a File, Now What? Nothing can make you feel more helpless than trying to rescue a file from a failing PC, Mac, or external drive. Maybe it's the trove of family photos that suddenly can't ...

Recovers files from all media. Preview feature lets you know in advance which files can be recovered. Includes disk-testing and cloning functions. Lists as recoverable too many files that are not. No ...