Recently at my day job, a coworker got a rather nasty piece of malware on his Windows machine called CryptoLocker. Basically what ransomware (like CryptoLocker) does is that it encrypts your important documents and pictures and then gives you a…
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Preparing for RansomWare Attacks
Tagged with: adaware, air gap, Apple, cryptolocker, DropBox, Encryption, EQUATION GROUP, Malware, MalwareBytes, Microsoft Windows, NSA, ransomware, Windows
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TAILS 1.0 is out now!
TAILS 1.0 is out now! For those of you into issues of Internet Privacy and Internet Freedom, this is a big milestone. Read about TAILS at wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system) Download the .iso file and burn a copy of it today. or download…
Tagged with: anonymous, cybersecurity, Edward Snowden, Encryption, hacker, Linux, NSA, Privacy, Tails
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Preparing for RansomWare Attacks
Recently at my day job, a coworker got a rather nasty piece of malware on his Windows machine called CryptoLocker. Basically what ransomware (like CryptoLocker) does is that it encrypts your important documents and pictures and then gives you a…
Tagged with: adaware, air gap, Apple, cryptolocker, DropBox, Encryption, EQUATION GROUP, Malware, MalwareBytes, Microsoft Windows, NSA, ransomware, Windows
Posted in Cybersecurity
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Using TrueCrypt on a Windows 7 Machine
Here is how to fully encrypt a brand new Windows 7 Machine using TrueCrypt Go to http://www.truecrypt.org and download the latest version of the software Install the Software Check your make and model of laptop for compatibility with whole disk…
Tagged with: Advanced Encryption Standard, Computer file, cryptography, Disk encryption, Drive letter assignment, Encryption, Hard disk drive, Microsoft Windows, Truecrypt, Windows 7
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“I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me”
Apparently the singer Rockwell was right. Someone is watching us, or at least storing every online record in a giant round file that may or may not ever be read by a human being and probably won’t even stop the next…
Tagged with: American Civil Liberties Union, CIA, cipher, cryptography, Disk encryption, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Encryption, FBI, Hard Disk Encryption, Linux, NSA, PRISM, Puppy Linux, snowden, Tor (anonymity network), Truecrypt
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