Lock and encode your flash drives with BitLocker to Go encryption in Windows 8 By Marco Chiappetta Dec 4, 2012 3:30 am PST ...

If you're in the habit of transferring files using USB drives, you may want to protect the information you store on them.

Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means Google says only 11% of users understand "the precise meaning of the lock icon." ...

According to Google, only 11% of internet users know what the padlock means—so it's replacing the icon with something else.

Recent data from anti-phishing company PhishLabs shows that 49 percent of all phishing sites in the third quarter of 2018 bore the padlock security icon next to the phishing site domain name as ...

If you've ever taken comfort in seeing a padlock in your browser's URL bar, you might want to rethink the trust you put in that little icon. New research shows that an increasing number of ...

The padlock symbol simply means that the data being sent between the web server and the user’s computer is encrypted and cannot be read by others. But many people don’t know that.