Creating new files and folders gives them a default permissions set that can allow access to them from other account, which may be concerning at first glance. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

The security settings for your Firefox browser govern whether websites can store information in your Firefox browser without your permission, open popup windows and even track your location. While ...

What are the default permissions for Google Play Services? I just upgraded my device to Marshmallow and joyfully started restricting the permissions for most apps. However, it appears I shouldn't have ...

There are instances where users may change the permissions of files and folders on their computers, which can result in file access errors. Apple Discussions poster mlevack writes: "After a Hard Drive ...

Just starting to roll out some 2008 R2 based VM's. I've created a couple of new partitions on one of them, and thought I'd lock the permissions down to Administrators and SYSTEM, but I'm finding that ...

Ubuntu, like other Linux distributions, restricts access to files and system settings by default. Each user account has read and write access to its own files and read access to some system files.