FileVault is OS X's built-in data encryption technology, and when enabled, as with an unencrypted OS X volume you simply enter your account credentials to get into your system.

A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

This security flaw, apparantly created when Apple left debugging code in the 10.7.3 update, is only triggered with Lion systems in which legacy support for the original FileVault is retained and ...

Apple Computer Inc.’s secure encryption technology FileVault appears to be the latest operating system issue to affect the company in the last week. Since the release of Mac OS X Panther on ...

In specific configurations, applying OS X Lion update 10.7.3 turns on a system-wide debug log file that contains the login passwords of every user who has logged in since the update was applied ...

Both BitLocker and FileVault are built into the operating system, and they take different approaches to solving the same problem. But if BitLocker and FileVault went head to head in a cage match, ...

Apple's legacy FileVault Mac encryption system in OS X 10.7.3 has a security flaw that could allow malicious users to access stored passwords.

Apple has released OS X Lion 10.7.4. The update includes performance improvements as well as a bunch of fixes, including the FileVault bug that was recently widely covered across the Web.

Apple released the fourth update to its OS X Lion operating system on Wednesday, closing a potentially nasty security hole in its FileVault encryption system. Among a raft of fixes and ...

FileVault encyrypts and decrypts data in the background, so the system can be used while the it does. What is FileVault? Apple introduced FileVault in 2005 with Mac OS X Panther (10.3).

Quick question regarding Lions new FileVault. Let say you have multiple user accounts on the machine, one of which has a very poor password. Does this compromise the whole system? i.e. if someone ...