A major security concern for users of online banking / share trading is keylogging. Simply put, a keylogger installed on your computer could pass on your login credentials (credit card information etc etc) to a cyber criminal. What the criminal could do with this information is anybody’s guess and your worst nightmare. A recent BBC investigation revealed [...]
Way back in 2002, I had proposed an Internet Draft “Biometric based Digital Signature scheme”. It did not make it to the status of an RFC, but I hope someone somewhere can build on the concept. Abstract: Digital Signatures are fast emerging as a viable information security solution, satiating the objectives of data integrity, entity authentication, privacy, non-repudiation [...]
In today’s hi-tech world, where every T, D and H owns a laptop and more, a fully equipped pen drive still makes a lot of sense.
Top 5 scenarios where a pen drive loaded with the rights apps makes great sense are:
1. You regularly work on a set of files on different computers [...]
Ever since Nimda blew my data to bits (…literally), I have been very very worried about computer viruses (and worms and Trojans etc etc). I use AVG on my personal machine but sometimes there are files I am doubly suspicious about. Even if AVG gives the clear signal that the file is virus free, I [...]
Before you get the wrong idea, I am referring to my USB stick (or “pen drive” in common parlance Its quite convenient to carry your data on a portable drive (pen drive / portable hard disk). Its even better when you can carry your apps with you. This is a list of apps that [...]
Its been 24 hours since we began playing around with U3… and I am impressed to say the least. If a suitable number of developers (and buyers!) show interest in U3, it has a great future…unless the next Microsoft operating system supports USB autorun My friend and collegue Abhijeet Parandekar just broke up with [...]
My 18 month daughter can port an app to u3 (just kidding but it’s actually very simple). Just follow these simple steps: 1. Install U3 Package Prototyper onto your U3 portable drive. (You can get it from www.u3.com) 2. Using the U3 Package Prototyper that you have installed on your portable drive, create a u3p file [...]
This small and simple guide lists the best FREE solutions to secure your network. Smoothwall Express SmoothWall Express is an open source firewall distribution based on the GNU/Linux operating system.It includes a hardened subset of the GNU/Linux operating system and is configured via a web-based GUI. Best of all….it requires absolutely no knowledge of Linux to install [...]
Alternate Data Stream as a method of steganography has the following pros: 1. Its FREE! 2. Its very easy to use. Check this out. 3. You do not need ant third party tools / software. It has the following cons: 1. No support for passwords (unless you embed password protected files) 2. Runs only on NTFS (and Microsoft says that ” [...]
Alternate data streams (ADS) are a very interesting feature of of the NTFS file system . In this post I am giving a simple code to hide an exe in a text file and subsequrntly run the exe using a batch file. I presume you are familiar with the basics of ADS. If not click here [...]