Are you protected from Meltdown and Spectre. Chances are you aren’t. You can find out with this new tool from Steve Gibson at GRC. Gibson is the creator of some great resources such as; Shields Up, Password Haystack and of course Spinrite the best hard drive maintainance tool. InSpectre examines your computer to see if it…
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What Is Meltdown & Spectre?
Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in all modern processors that allows a rogue process to read any physical, kernel or other process’s mapped memory, regardless of whether or not it should be able to do so. As it turns out this is not as big of a deal as it has been reported. To use…
Secure Your Google Services
If your like me you live on Google. Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, Maps, Photos, etc. I use them all and if I lost access to my Google account I would be in big trouble. How do I keep your Google services safe? You start with a really long password with upper and lower case letters, numbers…
30 Day Security Challenge
Today there are challenges to your tech security everywhere. Shannon Morse of TekThing, TWiT, Hak5, etc. has compiled thirty things you should do to keep your digital life safe. Check out the challenge!
Enigmail for Thunderbird
Enigmail is a data encryption and decryption extension for Mozilla Thunderbird and the SeaMonkey internet suite that provides OpenPGP public key e-mail encryption and signing. Enigmail works under Microsoft Windows, Unix-like, and Mac OS X operating systems. Its cryptographic functionality is handled by GNU Privacy Guard.
What is PGP?
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) encryption program provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.
CryptUp: Gmail Encryption in 60 Seconds
CryptUp is the simplest PGP application for Gmail. This application makes it extremely easy to create encrypted email within Gmail. There’s no need to understand how PGP works. CryptUp just works. CryptUp adds a new button in Gmail called SECURE COMPOSE. It lets you send encrypted emails to anyone. Just click on in, write your…
Encrypt Your Gmail With Mailvelope
Mailvelope is a free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox or Chromium) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications (“email websites”). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native email client (like Thunderbird) using the OpenPGP…
Don’t Run As Administrator
As the sixth tip says, “Don’t run as Administrator”. Any program you run while using an admin account has those same privilegdes this includes malware. UAC (user access control) has limited the danger some but it is far better for you to not have those privilegdes at all. Of course you will not be able to…
Preventing Ransomeware
You must be diligent to prevent randsomeware or any other malware from get on your computer or network. Here are some important security tip: Your first line of defence is to keep your operating system up-to-date. If all of those computers in Europe had updated their operating systems those machines would never have gotten infected. Make…
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