You can just toss that old hard drive in a drawer, which is the cheapest way to be sure nobody will access it, but if you’d just like to be rid of it, I’d recommend destroying it. Jim Rossman / TNS I ...

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.

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what disappears from view often lingers in the background, recoverable with the right ...

With stories surfacing on news channels regularly about lost or stolen data or the ability to recover data from discarded or resold computers and their hard drives, Computerworld decided to look at ...