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 ...

FileVault 2 encrypts data at the hard drive level. Programs that run on your Mac see the data as if it has no encryption. This lets you back up drives while you’re logged in, even if the system ...

What is FileVault? Apple introduced FileVault in 2005 with Mac OS X Panther (10.3). At that time, it only protected a user’s Home folder. The technology has evolved since then and now offers XTS ...

Anyone who used FileVault encryption on their Mac prior to Lion, upgraded to Lion, but kept the folders encrypted using the legacy version of FileVault is vulnerable. FileVault 2 (whole disk ...

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.

Also, Windows Vista offers individual folder encryption separately from BitLocker. Windows Vista Tip: Encrypt files Read More Mac OS X's FileVault ...

FileVault secures a user’s Home directory content with 128-bit AES encryption — a ... you will be logged out of Panther while the files in your Home folder are encrypted — the reverse ...

Instead, with FileVault enabled, you’ll have to manually log in every time. This will even be the case after waking your Mac from a sleep state, as well as attempting to use the system when ...

Among the topics discussed at the 23rd Chaos Communication Congress was FileVault, the encryption technology in OS X which might be described as "security for the rest of us." Apple touts ...

FileVault 2 is a feature of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that provides a way to encrypt a full disk drive so that it can only be used by those who know a password ... until now, that is. Passware, a company ...

FileVault lets you encrypt your entire drive with a master password to protect key-chain passwords, files, and more. FileVault 2 uses a separate partition to store the FileVault login information.

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