Dropbox is one of the most dominant cloud storage services available these days. We have already done a detailed comparison of the service with the SugarSync – another popular service that offers 5GB of data storage. Dropbox is extremely convenient if you intent to synchronize your data among two or more machines. Basically in most cases it completely eliminates the need for a thumb drive. However, if you use the Dropbox to store/backup or sync your sensitive data such as passwords, bank account ...

Dropbox is an extremely popular data backup and synchronization service that is adopted by its users mostly because of its simplicity and performance. But as with any other online storage service you can never be sure about the privacy of data that you are putting in there (despite what the company claims). I know that many of these services does offer enhanced encryption when transferring the data from your computer to the cloud and some even store it on their servers in the encrypted form. This ...

Amazingly, it is only a few days back that I had written about Protect Exe, a utility that allowed to encrypt executable files and today I have found another one which is much far better in terms of features, flexibility, convenience and reliability. The main limitation of that utility was that it only allowed to encrypt executable files but not everyone is interested in just encrypting exe files, as some also want to encrypt pictures, movie clip, documents and other type of files. File encryption ...

Security is of utmost importance for many computer users due to a number of reasons, and it becomes even more important to protect sensitive data when your computer is not physically very secure or you have some other users that are using the same machine. If we rule out the discussion related to the physical security then still there are a lot of ways to secure your valuable data on the computer. This is a very large topic and an expert in this domain can easily fill out entire books to cover it ...

Ok! first of all let me explain that what TrueCrypt is all about for all the people that don’t know about this fantastic piece of software. TrueCrypt is a security and privacy software that enforces your data privacy using on-the-fly transparent disk encryption(OTFE). What OTFE means is that, it supports the creation of virtual containers that stores all the files/data that you want to secure and are encrypted with strong encryption algorithms. Data stored in the containers can easily be accessed ...