Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this, Google Drive lets you lock files for editing, ensuring only you can ...

A new ransomware group called Memento takes the unusual approach of locking files inside password-protected archives after their encryption method kept being detected by security software. Last month, ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A sophisticated computer virus known as Crypto Locker is targeting businesses in Charlotte. It locks important computer files then demands money to release them. "These people are ...

I'm writing some bash scripts for a customer, which will run on their Solaris machine(s), and I need to be able to lock my files. Unfortunately - no flock command! Currently I have a working script ...

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We have a need for users in distributed locations to work on large multimedia files. Right now these files are available to users in a big CIFS filetree. Although high-bandwidth VPN connections are ...