There are some situations where you might want to temporarily disable Windows' built-in security tool. I'll show you how to do it safely.

Copying, moving, or deleting files on a USB drive is usually straightforward. However, this may not be the case if the USB drive you're using is write-protected. As the name suggests, write protection ...

Ransomware is nasty stuff. This type of malware encrypts files on your PC so that you can’t access them—unless you pay the attacker to unlock the data. In other words, your files are held hostage ...

Apple's highest level of iCloud encryption, Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, secures your data so it's unreadable even on iCloud servers. However, the technology is also under scrutiny in the UK, ...