Backing up your data is boring. We know. But it's a necessary part of our digital lives. So is there anyway of making it any more exciting? Hitachi hopes so and, as such, has released the LifeStudio Desk Plus - a portable hard disk drive with extras.

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Looks like a glitch in Dropbox's authorisation system briefly allowed users to login without a password, exposing accounts to unauthorised entry. 

Between 1.54 and 5.46 pm Pacific time yesterday accounts were left totally vulnerable to password...

Pocket-lint has teamed up with Mozy to bring you the chance of winning one of five year-long subscriptions to MozyHome, enabling you to keep all your important digital bits and bobs nice and safe.

According to research carried out by Mozy,...

Storage Application Corporation, the company behind the Clickfree series of backup devices, has announced a new product that allows you to use spare capacity on your iPhone or iPod for backups. They can also be used to get music off an iPod onto a computer.

We have all pretty much accepted that backup is essential as we now cram more sentimental - or costly - digital matter onto our PCs. Potentially the biggest dilemma is whether to backup locally, or to the cloud.

For many Mac users, Time...

Only a third of us (34%) back up our PC content on a regular basis and just 22% back up all their content, says Symantec, maker of Norton back-up software.

The company says UK consumers are more likely to check the oil and water in their...

For your Friday tech deal we have a way you can backup your data for free, and so avoid the inconvenience of data loss from hard disk failure or virus attack.

GFI Software has announced the release of a free version of its newly-developed...

Apple's Time Capsule saw a refresh in the recent bunch of updates from Apple, adding a clutch of new features to a device we already like. The Time Capsule name is perhaps a little misleading, as it leads you think is merely a backup device, but it has...

Backing-up you important files is becoming more pertinent as more of us increase the number of files we store on our computers, thanks to the rise of the likes of digital photography, downloading music and mobile working. Finding the best backup solution...

Backup is boring, but as we all increase our digital footprint, so too grows the necessity for a simple backup regime. Clickfree thought they had the ultimate solution with their backup drive, but now they’ve gone one step further and removed the drive.

Storage Appliance Corp, makers of the Clickfree system that we reviewed recently here on Pocket-lint, have added a new device to their line-up of simple automated backup solutions.

The Clickfree Transformer Cable is simply a USB cable that...

SanDisk has launched a USB flash drive that comes with backup software included so you can back up your PC at the press of a button.

The SanDisk Ultra Backup USB portable flash drive as it will be called is the first offering of the company’s...

Backup is a bore isn’t it? All that setting-up and fiddling with software. Well, not that difficult perhaps, but the Clickfree solution looks to make things easy as pie. But does it really live up to its name?

The Clickfree works on the premise...

Nero claims to have made things simpler with the latest incarnation of its digital media and home entertainment software.

Nero had a chat with its customers and the result is Nero 9, which is claimed to offer "one solution to easily create,...

Online storage seems to be a growth area – we recently reviewed Bullguard Backup 8 and liked it – now we have Webroot with its Secure Backup.

With the price of external hard drives now more affordable than ever, you have to wonder why such...