Laptops are becoming a a leading cause of gastric disturbance to IT managers worldwide. High-profile thefts, electronic eavesdroppers, and general lack of security, paired with workers' increasing ...

Now that they have encryption capabilities on their laptops, many end users may be overconfident about the safety of the data that resides on them, according to a study published this week. The laptop ...

I was looking into data encryption, since I got a new laptop and I am afraid of losing it, or it getting stolen. I want encryption so that if that does happen they can’t get my data, or make it ...

Equipped with a can of air spray and sophisticated data hunting techniques, attackers can rebuild disk encryption keys from fragments of data in memory Just when you thought you could sleep easy with ...

Every year, more than 5,000 laptops are lost in taxis in London, New York, Chicago and other large cities. According to our research, in 2008 companies’ topmost security investment was laptop ...

If the "don't want to end up on the front page of The Wall Street Journal" syndrome isn't enough to motivate chief information security officers to encrypt laptops, how about the fear of getting fired ...

Tom Doughty did his homework on laptop encryption projects before he chose McAfee’s Endpoint Encryption product (formerly Safeboot) and built the proprietary database and distribution mechanism to ...

Privacy Please is an ongoing series exploring the ways privacy is violated in the modern world, and what can be done about it. Cooper Quintin, a security researcher ...

Case study: Swiss Re encrypts hard drives on 4,500 laptops Insurance giant Swiss Re is encrypting the hard disks on 4,500 laptops in a bid to boost security. The company - which occupies the famous ...

U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes: sensitive information — names, addresses and Social Security numbers, for example — stored on laptops, handhelds, ...

Hope it's not considered too OT in here but I'm hoping for a more "corporate" audience than I might get in the laptop forum. We're reviewing laptop suppliers, we currently use Dell but aren't smitten ...