You Need to Do More Than Delete Files on an External Drive to Make Them Permanently Disappear

There’s a trick to thoroughly wiping all your data before you junk your old external solid state drive—or even computer.
MUO on MSN

This is what happens to a file when you delete it from your SSD

What this means is that the deleted file is not fully gone and can still be recovered. It's only when the data is overwritten ...

Notepad++ fixes flaw that let attackers push malicious update files

Notepad++ version 8.8.9 was released to fix a security weakness in its WinGUp update tool after researchers and users ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Your deleted files haunt old hard drives, here's how to purge them

Deleting a file on a computer rarely means it is gone. On traditional hard drives and many solid-state drives, what ...
Bitdefender

Notepad++ tightens update security after suspected hijack attempts

Notepad++ has started blocking unsigned updates after reports that its built-in updater delivered malicious executables to ...
TWCN Tech News

Back up, Move, or Delete PageFile.sys on shutdown in Windows 11

Your Windows system uses the Page file (pagefile.sys) for virtual memory. It works as an extra RAM of sorts. The paging file improves your system’s performance and speed, but some users prefer to ...
Opinion

This PowerShell script promises to remove every AI feature from Windows

A developer who goes by "Zoicware" has joined that resistance. He recently updated his tool for ripping AI features out of Windows 11. Called RemoveWindowsAI, the ...
Indiatimes

Did FBI remove Trump’s name from Epstein files? Report claims review of 100,000 documents, 300GB of evidence

In a recent twist, a report has emerged indicating that Donald Trump's name may have been omitted from the FBI's files on Jeffrey Epstein, igniting a fresh wave of debate. Initially downplaying the ...
Mid-Day

1,232 IndiGo flights cancelled, DGCA steps in to sort out issues

IndiGo on Wednesday informed DGCA that the airline had to cancel a total of 1,232 flights, of which as many as 755 flights ...
Mid-Day

DGCA directs IndiGo to cut winter schedule by 5 per cent after high cancellations; revised schedule to be submitted by Dec 10

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday directed IndiGo to reduce its flight operations by 5 per cent across sectors, citing the airline ...
Cybernews

Notepad++ releases emergency patch as hackers exploit updater to deploy malware

Hackers are abusing Notepad++, a popular text and source code editor, to deliver malware. The app’s updater, WinGUp, can be tricked by an attacker-in-the-middle to pull compromised executables from ...
CNET

Done With Facebook? How to Delete Your Account (and Keep All Your Stuff)

Sign in to Facebook. Go to Settings & privacy > Settings > Apps and websites. (Apps and websites is on the left, but you'll need to scroll down a bit. It's nested under Your Activity.) Select Remove ...