QUESTION: In a recent column, you wrote about cleaning off a hard drive with an "erase" program before getting rid of the computer. But I've been told that none of those programs really cleans up the ...

It makes sense to reuse, recycle, give away or sell on fully functional phones and computers when you’ve upgraded to the next model. Unfortunately, unethical chancers can, have and will data-mine ...

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta), working with L-3 Communications Corp. (New York), said they have developed a technique for quickly erasing hard-disk drives. The team ...

Why You Should Care: Almost every company eventually has to dispose of older hard drives, and they need a way to ensure (and prove) that the data on those drives was securely deleted. The Lowdown: ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jetico's new major release of their hard drive wiping software, BCWipe Total WipeOut, includes an exciting new feature: central management for both wiping and reporting ...

We all know that simply erasing the hard drive or re-installing the OS is no real guarantee that the data on that drive is unrecoverable. A great solution for IT Pro’s comes from a company called ...

Drag files to your computer’s trash, and they’re not really gone—most can be recovered with basic tools. Whether you’re wiping a single file or scrubbing an entire hard drive, the Data Shredder Stick ...

Here's the thrilling conclusion to last week's episode, namely, how to properly reformat — erase — your old Mac's hard disk so its data can never be recovered. First, back up the data on your old Mac ...

BCWipe Total WipeOut Supports User Data Erase Command for NVMe to Meet NIST Purge Requirements "The NIST guidelines for media sanitization are widely accepted and followed internationally, but they ...

Toshiba joins the self-encrypting hard drive march forward with its new Toshiba Self-Encrypting Drives series (models MKxx61GSYG). These SED drives won’t quite self-destruct like in “Mission: ...