Easily implement SSL on your site with ZeroSSL. Our guide covers free certificate setup, ensuring safe and encrypted user connections.
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Two areas that are particularly concerning are delays in FIPS 140-3 certifications and the development of post-quantum cryptography.
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Practical guide on how to encrypt an entire drive on Ubuntu 22.04 and how to encrypt the home directory and swap partition to prevent data theft in some cases.
Practical guide on how to use the GPG utility to encrypt and decrypt the Linux files to prevent the unauthorized access to delicate information using examples.
In this article, we will learn how symmetric-key encryption works from a practical perspective using OpenSSL.
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Highlights of VirtualBox 7.0 include initial support for fully encrypted virtual machines via the command line. Learn about the new release here.
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When a Linux partition is encrypted, access to the partition’s stored data and storage space is inapplicable to users who do not have the right access/authorization. The same Linux partition can only be termed as decrypted if direct access to it is authorized. The authorization/decryption phase requires the user accessing the locked partition to provide […]
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The enterprise-grade Titan M security chip was custom-built to help protect data. Derived from the same chip Google uses to protect its cloud data centers, it handles processes and information, such as passcode protection, encryption, and secure transactions in apps. Damiano Melotti, Security Researcher, Quarkslab, talks about the vulnerability research challenges encountered while exploring Google’s […]
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Your choice of encryption software can have a major impact on the safety of enterprise data, however. Learn more in this NordLocker vs VeraCrypt review.
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Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is the de-facto standard block device encryption format on Linux. Learn how to use LUKS with a detached header here.
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An attacker with physical access to the medium could use this flaw to force a user into permanently disabling the encryption layer of that medium.
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A basic hands-on tutorial that shows you how to get started with encrypting and decrypting files with GPG in Linux.
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FaceTime forces many to stay locked into a proprietary world. Its end-to-end encryption doesn’t let in Linux users. What are the best free and open source alternatives to FaceTime?
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In this article, we will learn how to encrypt block devices in Linux using LUKS. LUKS is the Linux encryption layer that can be used to encrypt the entire root partition, a logical volume, or a specific partition. Learn more here.
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age is a command-line tool that encrypts files. These files are binary, add around 200 bytes of overhead per recipient, together with 16 bytes every 64K of plaintext. age doesn’t offer disk encryption. Instead, it’s designed to be a simple, modern, and secure command-line file encryption tool. File encryption helps protect your data by encrypting […]
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Sophos cybersecurity researchers have discovered a Python-based ransomware operation that escalated from a compromised corporate network to encrypted virtual machines in just three hours. VMware ESXi datastores rarely have endpoint protection, the researchers noted, and they host virtual machines (VMs) that likely run critical services for the business, making them a very attractive target for hackers. In the threat landscape, it’s […]
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PeaZip is an open source, cross-platform archive management software that offers encryption and compression functions and can open and extract over 200 archive types. It can schedule archives, create self-extracting archives, and can even be used as a portable program without installation. The software is available under the open source LGPLv3 license and is free […]
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The OpenSSL Software Foundation released a completely refreshed version of the OpenSSL software, that handles much of the encrypted communications on the Internet. After over 7,500 commits and contributions from over 350 different authors, OpenSSL 3.0 …
Password managers help users to improve their online security not only by securing their passwords, but also by helping them generate strong and randomized passwords and encrypting them in a digital vault. Learn about 8 of the best password managers fo…
Tribler is a free and open-source file-sharing app for Linux, macOS, and Windows. It adds something unique to the BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol: onion routing. Onion routing, best known from the Tor Browser project, is a network routing scheme that relays connections via multiple proxies. Tribler encrypts your connections in layers so that each relay proxy […]
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