Antivirus vendors are warning of a rapidly-spreading worm that is carrying a potentially destructive set of instructions. The Nyxem worm — also nicknamed the Kama Sutra worm — is programmed to ...

Thinking a deleted file is truly gone is wishful thinking — but Windows’ sDelete tool can wipe it permanently and make it impossible to recover.

Whenever files are deleted from your computer, they are just unlike, and the sensitive data could remain on your hard disk or external drive. That could affect security and privacy where your Windows ...

I'm writing an image resizing utility and I want to allow the option of overwriting source images. When I try to (using <tt>Image.Save(string filename, ImageFormat ...

A new Onyx ransomware operation is destroying files larger than 2MB instead of encrypting them, preventing those files from being decrypted even if a ransom is paid. Last week, security researcher ...

Threat actors have exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Gogs self-hosted Git service to compromise over 700 ...

How to delete files securely and completely in Windows 11 using SDelete Your email has been sent Meeting DoD standards for securely deleting files in Windows 11 requires the use of a special ...

Michael Rohaly reports a case where iPhoto appears responsible for deleting photo files from his drive. The problem started when he was running a slide show of a photo album and noticed the appearance ...