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 [...]

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 [...]

Most Windows users work with administrative privileges all the time. Everything they do, from browsing the Internet, and writing documents is performed with full and unnecessary administrative control. From a security perspective, running with administrative privileges is dangerous to your computer and data, but sometimes it’s part of the job.
Web browsing and reading emails are [...]

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 remote desktop (RDP) is an extremely useful way to have access to your computer’s desktop from everywhere. Suppose you need to connect to your work computer through RDP, but your company’s IT staff configured the firewalls to block all remote connections except secure connections (e.g. SSH). This is just an example scenario where you [...]

Phishing attacks have become the epidemic in the past few years. They usually involve fraudulent web sites and email scams that try to collect sensitive information from Internet users such as account names, passwords, and credit card numbers.
To combat phishing attacks, you must know how to spot a phony web site. However, without proper knowledge, [...]

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 [...]

Privacy and being anonymous on the Internet are large concerns and top priorities for many online users. For communicating anonymously on the Internet you use Tor. For secure communications, so that nobody can read your private information you use SSH. Combine both, and you have a secure and anonymous communication. In this hack, we’ll show [...]

As more and more businesses move from legacy wireless security models, attackers are looking for new techniques to exploit wireless networks. One technique that is rapidly gaining popularity is to exploit vulnerabilities in wireless network drivers.
Most users and security managers are not aware of the security threats posed by outdated wireless drivers. Vulnerabilities in wireless [...]