Public areas that offer access to the Internet (airports, open wireless networks etc.) have no security in place. If you’re at a public WiFi spot, your personal information can be sniffed by other malicious users. This hack will show you a way to secure your web browser when using public networks.
In a nutshell, we’re going [...]

Email is sent across the Internet as plain text, which means that almost anyone can read your private emails and sensitive information. We’ve already covered before how to send encrypted emails with Mozilla Thunderbird, and while Thunderbird is a cross-platform email client that will work on Mac OS X, it just might not be your [...]

If you are a Windows user, you often use the Office Suite to write documents, prepare presentations or do some financial calculations. Sensitive documents can be given a degree of protection using Office built-in encryption. Microsoft offers several features to help restrict access to documents through the use of passwords or encryption.
If encryption is [...]

When using a public network, such as an open wireless hot-spot, the potential security risk is that your conversations can be sniffed by other malicious users. Encrypting your communication is most likely the best solution; however most Internet users will find it too tedious to setup.
In this hack, we will show you how to tunnel [...]

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that basically allows you to write JavaScript scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web pages you visit. As the scripts are persistent, the changes made to the web pages are executed every time the page is opened.
So what do these scripts do? Almost anything. Greasemonkey can be used for adding [...]

If you work on remotely connected machines, most likely you’re going to use SSH to secure your connections. But, what if you just want to work with files on a remote server, but find SSH file transfer tedious in repetition and establishing a VPN tunnel is too complicated?
What you’re looking for is a simple tool [...]

If you share a desktop computer, or use your laptop in airports, hotels and other public places, an unauthorized user might try to read valuable data stored on your computer. Also your portable computer can be stolen. These are just two scenarios where malevolent parties can gain access to sensitive information.
One solution to help reduce [...]

If you’re sharing a computer with other users and don’t want them to read certain files, you’re going to need a decent protection mechanism. Fortunately, Windows provides a built-in encryption mechanism that protects your files at the file system level.
Windows Encrypting File System provides a file encryption technology used to store encrypted files on NTFS [...]

Windows 2000 and later operating systems use the Windows Data Protection mechanism to protect private keys and stored credentials that applications and services want to keep confidential.
Each time you boot your computer, Windows uses the Startup Key to decrypt the private keys. The Startup Key is a unique key generated for each Windows installation that [...]

As you may know, standard email is sent across the Internet as plain text, so that anyone with access to the Internet can read your private email and confidential documents. If you’re concerned about your email’s security and want to make sure that is read by its intended targets and absolutely no one else, this [...]