In its first iteration FileVault was just used to encrypt the user's home directory, but in OS X Lion Apple introduced a second-generation full-disk encryption scheme that has been dubbed FileVault 2.

FileVault has been available on Macs since Mac OS X 10.3 Panther, but it had some shortcomings in terms of security. For one, it would only encrypt the user’s home directory, leaving the rest of ...

FileVault 2, the FDE technology built into Lion (Mac OS X 10.7), meets those three criteria in the right circumstances, but getting it up and running is not as easy as 1, 2, 3.(Speaking of which ...

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.

Mac OS X's FileVault. How it works: FileVault encrypts the user's home directory and all the files in it. As you read and write files to your home directory, in the background, ...

Apple’s FileVault encryption program was initially introduced with OS X 10.3 (Panther), and it allowed for the encryption of a user’s home folder only. Beginning with OS X 10.7 (Lion), Apple ...

FileVault Basics — Conceptually, FileVault is easy to understand, since it makes use of a variety of existing Mac OS X technologies. When you turn on FileVault, Mac OS X creates a special type of disk ...

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.

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 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 ...

Apple posted a knowledgebase article that reveals that the Mac OS X 10.3.1 update does specifically address the FileVault preference corruption that ...

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.