Password Protect Your USB Drive in Two Easy Steps – USB Security

USB Security

Kruptos 2 Go is tiny yet very effective USB security software that lets you password protect USB drives as simple as in two easy steps. USB Sticks, Flash drives, memory cards, thumb drives, portable hard drives: whatever you want to call them, they’re more like keychain accessories; they can be often used to carry highly sensitive information that you …

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How to Encrypt Files

How to encrypt files

Some information is best kept secret no matter whether it’s about your private life or business sensitive data. Now that we’re living in the future, much of that information is stored in computers. One of the ways to keep things secret in a computer is to use cryptography. Kruptos 2 Professional is one way to …

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How to Share Your file with Clients Securely using Kruptos 2 Professional

How to Share Your Data with Clients, Securely

You have confidential data that you need to share with your clients, you can’t send encrypted documents as the client does not have access to, or can’t install a decryption reader program. You can’t send a self-decrypting files via email as many internet services and company policies block attachments that contain Zip or Exe files. …

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US and UK ‘Crack Online Encryption’

encryption

US and UK intelligence have reportedly cracked the encryption codes protecting the emails, banking and medical records of hundreds of millions of people. Disclosures by leaker Edward Snowden allege the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK’s GCHQ successfully decoded key online security protocols. They suggest some internet companies provided the agencies backdoor access …

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NSA’s Access to Microsoft’s Services Detailed

Microsoft helped the NSA get around its encryption systems so the agency could more easily spy on users of its services, reports suggest. Papers given to The Guardian newspaper allege there were close links between the security agency and the tech firm. Microsoft said its collaboration with the NSA only took place because legal obligations …

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Lost USB Stick Costs Police £120,000 ($188,592.)

USB encryption

Greater Manchester Police has been fined £120,000 ($188,592)for losing a USB stick containing data on more than a thousand people – despite a previous incident leading to an “amnesty” on unencrypted memory sticks. The Information Commissioner’s Office fined the police force £150,000 – but offered a £30,000 discount for early payment – after an unencrypted …

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Why Passwords Have Never Been Weaker—and Crackers Have Never Been Stronger

In late 2010, Sean Brooks received three e-mails over a span of 30 hours warning that his accounts on LinkedIn, Battle.net, and other popular websites were at risk. He was tempted to dismiss them as hoaxes—until he noticed they included specifics that weren’t typical of mass-produced phishing scams. The e-mails said that his login credentials …

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Short Passwords ‘Hopelessly Inadequate

The availability of password-cracking tools based on increasingly powerful graphics processors means that even carefully chosen short passwords are liable to crack under a brute-force attack. A password of less than seven characters will soon be “hopelessly inadequate” even if it contains symbols as well as alphanumerical characters, according to computer scientists at the Georgia …

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