The news about the LastPass network breach has been completely blown out of proportion by the media. None of your private data has been exposed. What may have been exposed was a salted and hashed version of your email address, master pass-phase, per user salts and authentication hashes. All of this appears as random gobbledigook and requires…
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TrueCrypt
TrueCrypt is an opensource freeware application used for on-the-fly encryption. It can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or the entire storage device. TrueCrypt is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Read more! http://twit.tv/embed/13008 Full Instructions
TLS or SSL
TLS (Transport Layer Security) or SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is the only way to get complete security. You knowwww, when you go to your bank and you see the green lock that says HTTPS in your address bar. TLS/SSL is end to end encryption. This is sometimes refured to as a tunnel. It is secure…
Generate Password (Basics)
LastPass can generate strong passwords for all of your web accounts.
Getting Started With LasPass
To get started with LastPass you must first download the plugin to do this go to LassPass.com and click on “FREE – Download LasPass”.
What is LastPass?
Last pass is a cloud based password organizer. It can be accessed via the web or an browser plugin on your computer.
Security and Privacy Tools
So far we have just dealt with privacy issues but what about Internet Security? SSL and TSL SSL or TSL are Internet Security protocols. They encrypt (make your communication secret) everything on the Internet point to point meaning from your computer to the web server, this includes your passwords. Whenever you login to a SSL…
Secure Surfing
Who uses public available WiFi hotspots? What is HTTPS and TSL ? One way to crack sites using HTTPS is guessing passwords, so use strong passwords. What is broken on secure sites? Unencrypted session cookies. A hacker using a packet sniffing program can capture those unencrypted session cookies.
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