Ready to give your old computer the heave-ho? Before you do, remember that computers often hold all kinds of personal and financial information that thieves could find valuable—passwords, account ...

Representatives from recyclers, government agencies and businesses from Colorado and across the country convened in Denver last week to discuss electronics recycling. Representatives from recyclers, ...

I recently got into a conversation with David Szabados of Seagate Technology regarding their whole drive encryption and its contribution to corporate security. He told me about an interesting new ...

You might not think about it often, but a lot of raw materials like aluminum and plastic go into making the laptop or the desktop that is currently sitting on your desk. For those materials to ...

You can destroy a hard drive by wiping its contents and disassembling its parts for ultimate security. If you're donating, selling, or recycling a computer, you'll want to make absolutely sure you're ...

Forward-looking: Western Digital has launched a large-scale hard disk drive recycling initiative in partnership with Microsoft, Critical Materials Recycling, and PedalPoint Recycling. The program, ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...