External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files; they can be taken from home ...

Losing a USB drive or other mobile devices in which you store your valuable information can cost you a lot if accessed by any unauthorized person. The same may happen if it falls into the wrong hands.

Flash drives, thumb drives, USB sticks: whatever you want to call them, they’re more than keychain accessories; they can be used to carry essential information that you wouldn’t want to put online.

USB drives are easy to lose, and if you're carrying a lot of sensitive information on them, consider getting something with a little more protection. And the new Corsair Padlock 2 can certainly ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. In Information Technology, USB password protection is a phrase used to describe ...

I-O Data Japan has recently launched a new USB flash drive with some particular security features; the TB-PW. In addition to the ‘mainstream’ 128-bit AES encryption found on most secure drives, this ...

Q: I've noticed that USB flash drives have gotten really small. I'd like to get one and put it on my key ring, but I'd be afraid to keep any personal data on it in the event that I lost my keys. My ...

Enddylopez asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum about password protecting a flash drive. If a flash drive contains sensitive information–such as bank account statements, credit card ...

After loosing my USB drive for the first time, I'm now a lot more concerned about the security of my files. Is there a program, or a clever combination of programs and the autorun.inf file that would ...

USB plug-and-play devices are the easiest to use. They are also the easiest method to infect computers. Plenty of tools available in the market claim protection against USB infections. In this article ...