Tag: ENCRYPTION

Kruptos 2.0 allows you to encrypt your sensitive files with 256 bit file encryption for storage or for transfer on a portable device. Encryption? Isn't that just for the government types and the hackers with their Alienware laptops? Maybe it used to be, but Kruptos 2.0 might just change that: its ease of use and simple effectiveness might have us all encrypting photos of our dogs as if they were ...

If you've got a few files on your computer that you want to hide from the kids, we recommend you check out My Lockbox. It's easy to use, and the chances of locking yourself out of your PC are slim. But if you're looking for something a bit more powerful, say for protecting top secret government documents on your laptop, no freeware application beats TrueCrypt (although we seriously hope that the ...

Just one day after Apple announced it would be dropping the price of DRM-free music tracks from $1.29 to the iTunes-standard $.99, the company expanding its catalog of unencrypted music. With the move, Apple can legitimately claim to have the largest (legal) library of DRM-free music available online. For a few weeks there Amazon held that distinction, but it looks like the war is on. And while ...

There's a cat and mouse game that goes on between those who produce professional videos and those who want to watch those videos on their own terms. Every time the folks behind DVDs, Blu-Ray discs, or HD-DVDs serve up a new DRM scheme, hackers go to work trying to figure out how to circumvent that encryption. You can look at this as a noble or malicious act: either the hackers want to make sure ...

Another company prepares to enter the Googleplex, this time it's going to help out Google Apps users with security, archiving and policy enforcement. The acquisition of Postini announced this morning will help Google deliver their hosted applications to businesses, adding in another level of complex information security for organizations. Postini's solutions include Email Security, IM Security, ...

You know those numbers that could change the world? No, not the ones on Lost, the HD-DVD key code that could lead to the end of Digg as we know it. Well, the sixteen hexadecimal digits are just numbers when it comes right down to it. And you can do all sorts of things with numbers, like use them as a basis for web-colors and make them into a pretty picture that may or may not be illegal to share ...

Michael Crooker goes and gets himself arrested in 2004 for selling an air rifle with a silencer. The ATF seizes his computer but can't access the files. So they turn it over to the FBI, who cracks the security. What do they find? Video of the Crooker and his girlfriend having sex, medical records, evidence that he surfed pornographic web sites, family photos, and files that should have been ...

Ok, the title alone makes me quiver with delight, or maybe it is the coffee I just had. Geek-alert, everybody hit the deck! Fine, I wrote the title, but you have to admit, "quantum" anything is just freaking cool, not to mention "uncrackable encryption." That is cool too. So what is quantum encryption and why is it cool? Let's just say that is a complex way to encrypt data, and not by scrambling ...

Well, the controversy over whether BackupHDDVD actually does anything like, you know, ripping HD-DVD movies appears to be over. Several movie rips, including Serenity have already made their way to BitTorrent trackers. The breakthrough came when members of the Doom9 Forum tracked down several unique memory keys that BackupHDDVD needs in order to decrypt HD-DVDs. Apparently the keys for King Kong ...

ZDNet reports that film studios are going to allow the copying of downloaded movies to DVD. The spokesman for the DVD Copy Control Association, Greg Larson said "We want to give people the entertainment they want and offer it to them in the ways they want to use it." Go figure. Now if only the music business would catch on. The studios have thus far wondered why people aren't flocking to the ...

Not that I advocate the breaking of copyright laws at all, but this program is a download and a free one at that. DVD43 will allow all the law-abiding citizens to backup and archive their DVD collections. There are a ton of other DVD decryption programs out there sure, but DVD43 is easy to use and requires almost no user input. It will decrypt both DVD video and audio without you having to do ...

Turns out it is possible to teach an old horse new tricks. It seems there's a Trojan horse going around that, if run, will put your files into an encrypted zip file and delete the originals. It also leaves a file called AUTO_ZIP_REPORT.TXT that contains instructions on getting your files back: send $300 ransom to an E-Gold account. The text file says, "If you really care about documents ...

Phil Zimmerman, creator of the popular PGP encryption system, has released Zfone, an app that adds secure encryption to any SIP-based VoIP client like Gizma, Wengo, or Ekiga. The encryption protocol, which Zimmerman has submitted as a standard draft to the IETF, is exclusively peer-to-peer, meaning it does not rely on public key infrastructure for security. Zfone is currently available for free ...

There are lots of encryption programs out there. There are lots of ways to hide your notes too. But fSekrit is neat app that will take text, encrypt it, and wraps it up into a neat little file that you can run off a USB drive (or whatever, presumably). Essentially the program IS the file, and the developer has had to get around that little Windows limitation: an exe can't save to itself. But it ...