A typical home desktop computer or laptop hard drive can contain your social security number, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and website logins and passwords. This information can remain ...

Q. Would you please tell me in simple terms how to erase the hard drive on my HP computer? I would like to donate it or recycle it and do not want to leave any data on it. A. If you are planning to ...

You are on a U.S. military aircraft, transporting hard drives with important, classified information, when you collide with another plane and are forced to land near an enemy intelligence agency.

After reading Remove Sensitive Data Before You Sell an Old PC , Joel Edillon wants to know if it’s a good idea to physically destroy a hard drive instead of wiping it with special software. I wouldn’t ...