A typical home desktop computer or laptop hard drive can contain your social security number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and website logins and passwords. This information can remain ...

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.

You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

You can wipe a hard drive much easier now with the help of your Windows 10 Settings menu and the Disk Utility manager in a Mac's Recovery Mode. It's also possible to wipe a Mac data drive through the ...

After reading Remove Sensitive Data Before You Sell an Old PC , Joel Edillon wants to know if it’s a good idea to physically destroy a hard drive instead of wiping it with special software. I wouldn’t ...

Last week I introduced you to the new Windows Firewall, included as part of the new Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 RC2. This week I am going to discuss the destruction of sensitive data when ...