I’m impressed by this little device called the Yubikey which is the creation of a company called Yubico.  The Yubikey is a tiny form factor USB authentication device which produces a one time password for authentication purposes.  Essentially the Yubikey acts like a keyboard and auto enters passwords which are 32 characters in length (8 [...]

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Steve Gibson from Gibson Research Corporation ran several benchmark tests against TrueCrypt 5 and has a theory that Windows might actually run faster with whole disk encryption than without. Recently on Security Now episode #133 Steve explains to Leo Laporte what he did, here is an excerpt from the podcast:
Steve: I don’t know. It’s [...]

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Yet another horrific hack (depending on your view) has been demonstrated at the Black Hat conference in DC. Apparently two guys named David Hulton and Steve Muller are able to crack cell phone encryption used on (GSM) cellular signals (AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile use).
For around $900 in equipment and a little bit of time [...]

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New research shows that it’s possible to retrieve an encryption key from DRAM (the main memory chips used to store data while the system is running) during a power cycle.
Apparently the data on a DRAM chip fades slower at power loss than experts believed, allowing it to be retrieved with a quick reboot into a [...]

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Developers working with Bit Torrent technology are gearing up to take it to the next level against filtering techniques used by ISPs especially Comcast. The life of the network administrator is about to become a miserable existence as clever Bit Torrent developers are planning to bypass filtering techniques through the use of a new [...]

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It’s now official, TrueCrypt 5.0 has been released and it sounds like there are some neat new features in this latest release, for example whole disk encryption and improved performance.
In addition OS X is finally supported and I’m sure TrueCrypt will be a welcome replacement/alternative to file vault.
I’ve used TrueCrypt for quite some [...]

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