Archive for the ‘Data Security’ Category

If you are concerned about somebody accessing your private and confidential data stored in your computer, and want to create secret, hidden and encrypted partitions on your hard disk, then SecretDisk is an option worth considering. SecretDisk is a freeware, lightweight and efficient software, which can create upto eight secret hidden partitions onto your HDD ...

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If you are working in an environment, where you have to frequently leave your computer for a few minutes and you are concerned that somebody else might see what were you doing on your computer in your absence, then there is simple keyboard short-cut in the form of Win Key + L. This will lock your computer and nobody can access it in your absence. Once you ...

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Mistakes and accidents happen with everybody. And similarly, Data Recovery from HDD, USB or Memory Cards is something, which we all require to do at some point of time or other. DiskDigger is a freeware tool, which allows you to recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards ...

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Data Encryption goes a long way in allowing you to safeguard your private and confidential data falling into wrong hands. But I have seen many people just shying away from encrypting their sensitive data because of a lot of reasons. They think data encryption is not for them and they quote several reasons for that, like Data Encryption is a tedious process, they do not know how ...

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Need of USB Image Tools Simple Copy and Pasting of files is not equivalent to creating or duplicating an entire disk. It doesn't create the same directory structure of file. In case you want to create a USB Image of your Windows file, then you can download a free USB Image Tool ...

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BitLocker to Go - Portable Encryption Utility for Windows 7 Microsoft introduced a concept of encryption of the entire disk with the BitLocker utility in Windows Vista. It was designed to protect customer information by encrypting machines in order to guarantee that the data was safe especially in scenarios involving stolen computers. Later on, this concept was further extended to encrypt data on the portable drives ...

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Free Portable Encryption Tool In case you are on the lookout for a portable encryption tool for encryption test messages, then we just found a really simple and extremely light-weight tool, which works like a charm. The LetterEncryptor is hardly 9kb freeware download from Prankur, an Indian student aspiring for admission to prestigious technology Institute IIT (Good Luck to him for his preparations). It is deceptively simple ...

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The Need of Hiding Rrnning Programs Many a times you are working on your computer and you have to lend it to a colleague for some quick task. Or you might be working in a shared computer environment, and some other person may be working on your computer. In such cases, you may sometimes not like the other person to know, what were you doing. What programs, ...

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Are you working on a shared computer and are concerned about the privacy of some of your important data files. Or sending your computer to the repaid shop and concerned about the privacy issues of the important data files. One way to ensure the privacy may be to use data encryption and decryption. There ...

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The Need of Secure Email Service Provider Emails have changed the way we communicate with one another. Today, we cannot imagine the world without emails.But very few people recognize and acknowledge that emails are just like open letters without any envelope, which can easily be read by anybody, who can sniff ...

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