Does anyone with Lion developer preview know how Lion's filevault handles standby/sleep mode? I'm one of those rare birds that successfully uses Snow Leopard Filevault on my laptop to give me "walk ...

So what is the latest with FileVault? I have been thinking about turning it on when I upgrade to 10.6, any reason not to?<BR><BR>I will have CrashPlan installed and backing up my unencrypted files, so ...

Apple just released OS X Lion 10.7.4, which fixes a nasty bug that exposed FileVault passwords in plain text if Snow Leopard users upgraded to Lion but kept using their legacy FileVault settings.

If you are installing Lion on a RAID array or other custom drive setup, you may not be able to enable FileVault and other advanced volume management features. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Both Windows Vista and Mac OS X can encrypt files and protect them from the prying eyes of thieves and snoops. Vista's new BitLocker feature and Mac OS X's FileVault are especially useful to those of ...

Another week, another Apple Mac OS X security issue. The latest version of the operating system, Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion, under certain conditions generates a file that exposes user passwords in plain ...

Encrypting your Mac’s entire hard drive—making it unreadable to anyone who doesn’t have the correct encryption key (a sort of software passcode)—is a perfectly marvelous idea to maintain the privacy ...

I didn't immediately upgrade to Leopard, the new version of Mac OS X, when it shipped back in November for reasons I discussed here, but last weekend I decided to go for it. There's a new update ...

For most IT workers, securing a Windows or Linux computer is a reflexive action. But when it comes to Macs, users often don’t take the few extra steps to implement basic security measures; they either ...

There's a major security bug in the currently shipping version of OS X Lion (10.7.3). ZDNET's own Emil Protalinski and Ed Bott exposed it after it was first reported by security researcher David Emery ...