Ready to give your old computer the heave-ho? Before you do, remember that computers often hold all kinds of personal and financial information that thieves could find valuable—passwords, account ...

Question : I need to dispose of my old computer but I’m told that I need to have all of my data removed. We’ve deleted what we can but apparently there is still retrievable data on the hard drive ?

Representatives from recyclers, government agencies and businesses from Colorado and across the country convened in Denver last week to discuss electronics recycling. Representatives from recyclers, ...

I recently got into a conversation with David Szabados of Seagate Technology regarding their whole drive encryption and its contribution to corporate security. He told me about an interesting new ...

Forward-looking: Western Digital has launched a large-scale hard disk drive recycling initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling. The program, ...

A new service is being introduced that is geared to both processing electronic scrap for recycling, but also ensuring that sensitive material is destroyed. Colorado-based Webroot Software, Inc. and ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 ...