News, Reviews, and Tutorials about Computer Encryption

One of the main reasons why your data is not safe without encryption, is the fact that your Windows password can easily be restored.
This process – also called “hacking your windows password” – is fairly easy and works with both Windows XP and Windows Vista.
After following the few simple steps of this tutorial, you will [...]

One of the things many people tend to forget when setting up their wireless network is to change the router’s default password. These default passwords can easily be found on the Internet and therefore don’t provide any significant protection.
Not changing the standard login enables unauthorized users to easily access your router’s security settings, spy on [...]

Instant Messaging is one of the most popular ways of communication in today’s world. Not just private individuals but also professionals rely on services such as Yahoo Instant Messaging, or MSN to communicate with their peers, collegues, or clients.
As we have recently highlighted in one of our previous posts (e.g. What Hackers Can See on [...]

Here is a quote form Sys-Con.com. Good news for the safety of patient records in Seattle.
We salute these kind of news and are happy to post about them on computer-encryption.com.
Endless cases of employees losing their laptops or USB sticks with unencrypted data could soon be history if more institutions were to implement better security for [...]

Corsair Padlock, a USB flash drive offering protection for your data by means of a number combination, bears serious security risks and proves to be an unreliable device to ensure your data stays encrypted.
The idea is certainly great: a regular USB stick equipped with a built-in keypad only granting you access to its data if [...]

Following the lead of SanDisk with its First Encrypted USB Stick for Apple’s Mac OS X, Kingston’s Privacy Edition of their popular usb drive series “Kingston DataTraveler” is now also available as an out-of-the box encrypted flash drive for Apple’s Mac OS X.
This marks a big step for the growing Mac community and is certainly [...]

The US Army has announced that it is going to employ Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 on 750,000 computers over the course of this year.
This is one of the largest employments of Vista in government history and has been done with a long delay in order to test the system and wait for critical [...]

Before you can update your router and improve – for example – its security settings (see How to Set Your Wireless Router to Use WPA Encryption), you need to know it’s local IP address which allows you to access the configuration menu.
The router’s IP address is permenant and never changes. It allows your router to [...]

We’ve mentioned many times that you are facing a risk of being spied on when using a public wireless network or if you don’t encrypt your wireless network at home. People with a certain basic knowledge and the respective bad intention can actually see quite a lot of what you are doing and even spy [...]

Setting up your wireless router to use WPA encryption is easy and can be done rather quickly. Open your web browser and point it to your router’s web address. If you don’t know the web address, see if this tutorial helps you: Three Steps to Find Out Your Router’s IP Address
Most likely you will be [...]