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Geek to Live: Encrypt your data

Geek to Live: Encrypt your data
Geek to Live: Encrypt your data

by Gina Trapani

Everyone’s got files they’d like to keep out the the hands of intruders or casual passerby. Ever concerned you’ll lose the thumb drive where you backed up four years of post-graduate research? Every worried your 5-year-old will accidentally open the um, grownup files just [...]

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
Main Features:

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

Encrypts an [...]

FOSS for Security

FOSS for Security | Daily Cup of Tech
It never ceases to amaze me how much quality freeware/open source software (FOSS) there is out there. In honor of Security Week, I have decided to compile a list of security related FOSS.

I have broken the security software into the following categories:

* Anti-Phishing
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Leak-tests results

Leak-tests results – matousec.com
Introduction

As a part of our Windows Personal Firewall Analysis project we have performed our own leak-testing. This page contains results of these tests and a comparison of anti-leak features of the most popular personal firewalls. To learn more about leak-tests, we recommend you to read our Introduction to Firewall Leak-testing.

We present more tests [...]

Ophcrack

Ophcrack
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as [...]