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 ...

Even with modern, high-speed Internet connections, few methods of moving data from your home PC to your business computer are faster, more convenient and more secure than using a USB drive. Fedora ...

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

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

Mac OS X Lion introduced the world to FileVault 2 Apple’s solution to full disk encryption. It is one of my favorite features in Lion, and it is definitely a welcome addition to Mac OS X. Just about ...

We’ve all lost a flash drive or two. Whether it was a cheap USB drive containing some promotional material, or top secret one detailing the security protocol pertaining to a certain Queen of England’s ...

The chances are that at one point or the other, everyone has tried to format their USB drive in NTFS. Although, by default, Windows doesn’t allow the USB stick in the NTFS file system, it’s always ...

I'm finding that I'm carrying more and more of my life on USB flash drives. There seemed to be something so wrong about storing data on something which, if I lost, could give someone else access to my ...