Referring to my post about TrueCrypt, I mentioned a disadvantage of using this software — you cannot use it on a computer without administrative rights. Actually, there is a third-party GUI interface program that can be run on a computer without administrator rights, and you are still able to access the container file of TrueCrypt […]
Public Key Infrastructure is also named PKI. What is the role of Certificate Authority in PKI? Before we talk on this, let’s discuss the term “trust”. The operation of Public Key Infrastructure strongly depends on “trust”. And this is also related to the application of asymmetric cryptography technique. To illustrate this, let’s suppose Bob wants […]
The term steganography refers to the technique of hiding information within a certain “writings” or anything transmitted with your communication system in such a way that no one other than the intended recipient knows there is a hidden message. This technique differs from cryptography, which encrypts the message in order to prevent someone from gaining […]
As I promised in the post about a data encryption utility called TrueCrypt, I am going to show you another utility that can be used to encrypt portable data on a USB drive. Unlike TrueCrypt, in which you must have administrative rights to activate the program for accessing the encrypted data, this program allows you […]
In this article, I will use layman’s terms and descriptions to help you understand the various fundamental concepts of Risk Management in Information Security. To illustrate those concepts, I like to use a popular diagram1 from Common Criteria, shown below: In the center of this diagram you’ll find the term vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities are any weaknesses […]
Do you worry about your data from being stolen if you lost your USB thumb drive or other portable data storage? Here is a free solution. Try TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt is an open sourced project providing a simple solution to encrypt your USB data (or actually data in any other movable or internal storage of your […]
