Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this ...

While the reasons for locking a PDF file can be as varied as the reasons for creating it, there are essentially two main reasons to lock a PDF: to control who can access the document, or to control ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A sophisticated computer virus known as Crypto Locker is targeting businesses in Charlotte. It locks important computer files then demands money to release them. "These people are ...

New Google Drive policy cracks down on ‘abuses’ of the platform These files will be flagged to their owner and restricted automatically, which means they can no longer be shared with other people, and ...

A new ransomware group called Memento takes the unusual approach of locking files inside password-protected archives after their encryption method kept being detected by security software. Last month, ...

I'm writing some bash scripts for a customer, which will run on their Solaris machine(s), and I need to be able to lock my files. Unfortunately - no flock command! Currently I have a working script ...

We have a need for users in distributed locations to work on large multimedia files. Right now these files are available to users in a big CIFS filetree. Although high-bandwidth VPN connections are ...