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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, ...

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 ...

Fujitsu America announced a series of hard disks for business notebooks with hardware-based disk encryption, reducing the security risk of lost computers.The 2.5" 7,200RPM drives implement AES-256 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vancouver, Canada and Traverse City, Michigan: January 13, 2009 " Absolute Software Corporation and the Ponemon Institute today announced the findings of a new study on the use of encryption on ...

I always take my laptop with me when I travel, which means I'll inevitably have to leave it unattended in the hotel room or airport security line. To ensure my personal data is protected if my PC is ...

The threat is a big one. An estimated 750,000 laptops were stolen last year, up from 600,000 in 2003, according to Absolute Software, a maker of tools to retrieve lost or stolen laptops. The threat of ...

U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes. U.S. government agencies are scrambling to plug one of their biggest security holes: sensitive information — names, ...