You can accidentally and permanently ruin your computer a number of ways, from using a cheap power supply unit to updating ...

Carol, a Smith alum, had a big problem. She was sitting on a trove of old photos of her student days. Her plan was to donate them to the Smith College special collections. But her computer, Dell’s ...

A particularly malicious virus can at worst disable a hard drive temporarily. A virus alone is not enough to physically break a hard drive or completely disable a hard drive to the point where it ...

In this excerpt from Chapter 5 of The Little Black Book of Computer Security, author Joel Dubin illustrates the ease with which a hacker can bypass a BIOS password and break into a computer. If the ...