When you are using a MacBook Pro to perform work for your company and the laptop has a Maxtor external hard drive connected to it, you can change the drive's permissions. For example, you may want to ...

You can control permissions for websites to improve security and privacy on Microsoft Edge, and in this guide, we'll show you the steps to perform this task. When you purchase through links on our ...

Just as your office file cabinets should be off-limits to competitors and snoops, access to the files on your company's computers should be restricted as well. The CentOS operating system enables you ...

As companies move off Windows 7 and Server 2008, they run the risk of leaving dangerous access permissions behind. Here's how to find them. Ransomware often leverages a cracked administrator or local ...

If you need to allow or block apps to access your files, in this guide, we'll show you how to do it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

What’s the best way to manage user accounts on a Mac? If you share your Mac with other people in your household or office, you’ll want to set up separate user accounts for each person. Each user can ...

App Permissions usually pop up the first time you open a recently downloaded application on your phone. Such feature is designed in accordance to every end-user’s privacy and security when using a ...

Your phone knows a lot about you. It tracks your movement, browsing habits, downloads, and more. Go here for a trick to know when your phone’s camera or microphone ...

A few weeks ago, I answered a reader question about “inherited permissions,” or how to deal with a shared folder that multiple people use via file serving on a regular Mac, not one running macOS ...

One way to get a little more clarity on this is to look at the permissions with the stat command. The fourth line of stat’s output displays the file permissions both in octal and string format: $ stat ...