When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Mobile devices sometimes get lost. A laptop bag gets left on the bus or train, a smartphone slips out of your pocket, or a USB flash drive falls to the ground unnoticed. Losing a notebook or phone ...

Nobody who values the files on their computer should be without at least two regularly updated methods for backing them up. External drives are perfect for this. You can plug them into your computer, ...

When a data-stealing Trojan hoovers up all your sensitive files and exfiltrates them to its owner’s evil server, you’ve got trouble. Unless, that is, you took the ...