Enigmail – Digitally Sign And Encrypt Your Email In Thunderbird
Enigmail is a security extension to Mozilla Thunderbird Email client that allows you to send digitally signed and / or encrypted emails with ease. It also automatically verifies the digital signature of the email you receive, and lets you decrypt any email encrypted with your public key.
Read moreHow To Uninstall Truecrypt In Linux
Truecrypt is a very secure file/disk encryption tool which is available as open source, which you can freely download and use. And you can install Truecrypt very easily in Linux too.
Read morebcrypt – A Good File Encryption Tool
Bcrypt is a cross platform file encryption tool that uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. One of the chief advantages of using bcrypt (apart from the security aspect) is that it runs on a wide variety of OS platforms and hardware architectures. This includes Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, BSD, HP-UX etc. This means, you can [...]
Read moreLastPass – A Secure Online Password Manager
LastPass is an online password manager that helps you securely manage all your passwords. It encrypts and stores all your passwords online. However, the lastpass database containing the passwords is encrypted locally on your machine before it is sent to the remote server thus making it very secure.
Read moreHow To: Install TrueCrypt in Ubuntu Linux
Setup / Install Truecrypt in Ubuntu Linux – This easy guide will help you do it the simple way. TrueCrypt is an open source software that helps you set up and maintain an on-the-fly encrypted volume. On the fly encryption means data is automatically encrypted or decrypted right before they are loaded or saved, without [...]
Read moreTop WordPress Plugins To Secure Your Blog
In an earlier post, I had explained the steps I took to clean up my hacked WordPress blog and get it back online in the shortest possible time. To successfully ward off a hacking attack on your WordPress site, you need to take a few more precautions.
Read moreHow To Clean Up Your Hacked WordPress Site
Today when I visited this site, I got the shock of my life. Instead of my blog posts, what I saw was a static web page which stated that this site has been hacked. I immediately contacted my web hosting provider Bluehost.com and notified them of the same. Thankfully, Bluehost support staff were very quick [...]
Read moreHow to enable HTTPS in Gmail and make it more secure
Till date, I was of the opinion that merely pre-pending https:// to mail.google.com would enable “Secure HTTP” or HTTPS mode in Gmail. For the uninitiated, Https mode also called secure http mode will keep your data encrypted as it travels between your web browser and the website server across the Net. So using https:// was [...]
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