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Password Protect Your Removable Thumb Drive With USB Flash Security

Even though cloud storage services like Drop Box, Just Cloud and Sugar Sync have freed us from carrying USB flash drives with us even when we have to take a single text file to another location, large files still need to be transferred to USB flash drives and portable hard drives. Sometimes, the flash drive [...] (more…)

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Encoding Decoding: Quickly Encrypt/Decrypt & Password Protect Files

Encoding Decoding is an encryption software, which provides a dead simple mechanism for encoding files, i.e., by dragging them to the applications interface and entering a password for them. This easy to use application makes it possible to quickly secure your important files, to protect them from unauthorized access. Furthermore, it does not replace the input [...] (more…)

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Open Secure: Open Links Over The HTTPS Protocol In Firefox

Browsing over a secure network is something you want to make more a habit out of than an option. Websites, by default, open pages over the HTTP protocol and not over HTTPS even if it is available. Among different ways to open a website over the HTTPS protocol, extensions are one. The HTTPS Everywhere Firefox [...] (more…)

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Auto-Switch To HTTPS Secure Websites In Firefox With HTTPS Finder

HTTPS (HTTP over SSL or HTTP Secure) is the use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) which is a sub layer under HTTP application layering. HTTPS encrypts and decrypts webpage requests which ensures having secure sessions on websites e.g. Facebook. This can allow having a safe browsing session which can bar [...] (more…)

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Find, Monitor, And Secure Your Lost Laptop With LockItTight

LockItTight is a nice web application to locate, monitor, and secure your lost laptop. A free account is required before you can begin installation of client software. Once installed, it runs silently in Windows background. The standard version is free but only supports one device. Which is probably a big downside if you have more [...] (more…)

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HTTPS Everywhere Encrypts Web Traffic For Secure Browsing [Extension]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Tor Project have launched a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. Inspired by Google’s encrypted search option, this add-on will simply encrypt the traffic to some of the many popular sites, including Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, NYTimes, PayPal, Mozilla, Google Search, Google Services, and many others. (more…)

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Use Encrypted Google Search & Products In Firefox [Security]

Do you know that your communication can be monitored because you are not using a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection to encrypt the information that travels between your computer and Google? If you find the URL of any website starting with https://, it means it is using SSL and is 100% secure. Google now supports [...] (more…)

How To Enable/Disable Secure Logon In Windows 7

You might have often seen that you need  to press Ctrl+Alt+Del on your keyboard to unlock the computer before you can logon to Windows, this feature is called Secure Logon. It provides an additional security layer for your system by making sure that the authentic Windows logon screen appears, in this way it becomes very [...] (more…)

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How To Create/Generate A Strong And Unbreakable Password Instantly

Are you looking for a way to generate secure, random, and unbreakable passwords? Passgen Password Generator, if you haven’t heard of the name before, is a free opensource tool that generates strong and unbreakable passwords instantly. Whether you are looking for generating a secure password for your server, or for an important account, this tool [...] (more…)

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How To Create A Secure Password Protected Partition Inside USB Flash Drive

Do you want to save some important files inside your USB Flash Drive? The best way is to make a secure partition using Rohos Disk. It makes a partition inside the USB Flash Drive where you can save all your important files and folders. You can protect this partition by assigning a password, which makes [...] (more…)

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How To Securely Hide Your Private Folders In Windows

Do you want to hide your files and folders securely so that it cannot be accessed by anyone with any software? There is a freeware security software called Free Hide Folder that hides your folder and makes it fully secure from unauthorized access. There are many software out there which can hide your private folders, [...] (more…)

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Browse The Web Safely And Securely With McAfee Site Advisor

The first thing everyone does when he/she comes online is to search and browse the web. Majority of the people will click on the top results in search engines, since they are above other links they will click on it without giving a second thought. What they tend to forget is that there are millions [...] (more…)

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Send Free Encrypted And Secure Text Messages Via Email

A few days back we covered how to send secure and encrypted email messages using lockbin. This service encrypts messages by applying hash functions such as MD5 or HS1, but what if you want to choose and apply different kinds of hash functions and encrypt the text yourself? There is a simple way of encrypting [...] (more…)

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Create Secure Password – Check Password For It’s Strength Using Password Meter

Are you using the same password for all your web accounts and unsure if its strong enough? Many of us mostly use the same password for all the accounts, but it is important to make sure that the password is strong enough so that nobody is able to hack it. It is always advisable to [...] (more…)

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Send Free Secure Encrypted Email With LockBin

Do you want to send some top-secret stuff to your friend? When you send an email using Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc the emails are never secure even if you use SSL, someone can read your emails if he knows how to capture incoming or outgoing mails. This is where LockBin comes in, it is an [...] (more…)