Cryptic Disk 2.7 provides a simple and affordable way to protect disks and disk partitions by encrypting them. The encrypted data cannot be accessed without entering the password, even if a hacker gets access to a PC or the hard drive is stolen. [Update | License: Shareware $49.95 | Requires: Win ME...

You really have to read this article: Judge upholds efforts to compel individual to decrypt drive in child pornography case The accused had sought Fifth Amendment protections against self-incrimination http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9128920&...

Data is always valuable be it anywhere. Most of the time we carry it on Hard disk or USB drives and sometimes we also use Online Storage for this.  However in all the cases your data is no doubt secured but not safe. Anybody who can get hold of your hardrive or USB can get your data and there is wh...

A federal district court in Vermont has ruled that the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination does not bar the government from requiring Sebastien Boucher, who faces charges of possessing child pornography, to decrypt his laptop hard drive. A lower court had previously quashed a subpoena c...

GRUB or the GRand Unified Bootloader is the bootloader commonly installed by Linux distributions on your hard disk. GRUB is responsible for showing you the menu that allows you to choose the operating system you want to boot into and also lets you tweak and control the booting options. Awesome power...

Instant messaging has been very popular for quite some time now. Although services like Twitter have somewhat tarnished the appeal of IM, chatting with your friends on Google Talk or Yahoo Messenger is not going away any time soon. Here are some of the top tips and tricks that you can use to get mor...

Dark Neuron writes "My institution has thousands of computers, and is looking at starting an IT policy to encrypt everything, all hard drives, including desktops, laptops, external hard drives, USB flash drives, etc. I am looking at an open source product for Windows, Mac, UNIX, as well as portable ...

Everybody’s got secrets. Passwords, Social Security numbers, a safe combination, trade secrets… Well, we can’t exactly condone corporate espionage (We’ve had enough of that, thank you very much!). However if you are, as an example, a newly-elected U.S. President, named…...

For quite some time now I’ve been taking a pretty big risk with a lot of files at home. I have a linux box that I run samaba on in order to share files with my Windows machines. These Windows machines map that share as their “S” drive. Once upon a time, this 120GB drive had a twin ...

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has released three final specifications for hardware-level data encryption, and virtually all the major storage manufacturers have declared that they intend to adopt the new standards in the near future. Self-encrypted disks are already available on the market—...