One of the oldest still-working protocols on the Internet is FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Designed in the net’s earliest days, FTP never concerned itself with security. Later standards addressed this ...

Locking down individual files is great, but a blanket encryption will prevent anyone from getting their paws on your files.

With the frequency and severity of malware attacks growing practically every day, the files and folders on our computers have never been more at risk. Sure, there have been solutions for strong ...

Here’s hoping you are not like many people I meet all the time. They have committed the Number One Sin of computer file management: they have a wide open, anyone can read it file on their computer or ...

The rise of cloud storage has made traditional USB drives all but obsolete, but could there still be a reason to keep an ...

According to industry experts, around $2.9 million is lost to cybercrime every minute. This amount is only going to rise in the coming years. Not every business has the resources for a full security ...

Is it possible to end the investigations and prosecutions that the RIAA, the music download police and similar entities use to prosecute users of file-sharing networks? The answer depends, say online ...

Couldn't figure out a better forum for this. Hopefully soon I'll have some money to buy a low-end NAS that I can use for backups which I can make a little safer than a connected USB drive, in terms of ...