There’s been a steep rise in the number of data leak incidents. Many agencies are directly tapping into the servers of major internet companies to access users’ personal information without their ...

VSEncryptor is a very easy-to-use encryption tool which allows you to encrypt any type of file or text. With VSEncryptor you can encrypt a file with a password – but remember – you can decrypt the ...

Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that attackers cannot break into secure network ...

A new Send feature lets you send links to encrypted files A new Send feature lets you send links to encrypted files is a reviews editor who manages how-tos and various projects. She’s worked as an ...

Online privacy has started to sound like an oxymoron! Every e-mail (confidential or not) you send is sent as a plain text and if intercepted, it will just be a sitting duck with no protection ...

Encryption is hard. When NSA leaker Edward Snowden wanted to communicate with journalist Glenn Greenwald via encrypted email, Greenwald couldn't figure out the venerable crypto program PGP even after ...

True story: A friend of mine—a programmer I’ll call Annie—came home one day to find her new town house burglarized. Among the stolen items was the PowerBook she used for work. While she hoped that the ...

In this paper, which is modeled on a similar effort in 1999 by researchers from George Washington University, Berkman Fellow Bruce Schneier and collaborator Kathleen Seidel together with Harvard ...

Unfortunately, IT professionals have to deal with sensitive information all the time. That information could be in the form of passwords, proprietary company information or anything that you'd rather ...

shc is a popular tool for protecting shell scripts that contain sensitive information such as passwords. Its popularity was driven partly by auditors' concern over passwords in scripts. shc encrypts ...