WASHINGTON (AP) — Some tips to help business travelers protect their laptops and mobile devices from spying — or at least limit the damage of hacking — while in China or other nations that may want to steal company information:

—Don’t take your work or personal laptop. That’s the best advice and a precaution used by major companies and agencies of the federal government, said Anup Ghosh, chief financial officer of Invincea, a software security company in Fairfax, Va. Instead, some employers issue traveling laptops that are clean of proprietary corporate or government information and are scrubbed clean after the employee returns from the trip.