You might know already about the Carrier IQ drama that happened recently. For those of you who don’t know Carrier IQ is software that comes pre-installed on many mobile handsets without the users knowing about its presence. This software is said to be used for measuring the customer experience and typical mobile usage patterns etc. However, it has been found recently that Carrier IQ can breach user privacy by logging the messages and user keystrokes and sending this sensitive data among other pieces ...

Lately, we have seen a lot of buzz or should we say controversy around the presence of a nasty hidden tool installed on many Android devices (as well as Apple iOS devices) called Carrier IQ. Briefly speaking Carrier IQ is tool that according to the company allows to measure the users experience and performance for example signal quality, dropped calls, apps activity, battery life stats. Officially as of now company has denied to log the user keystrokes, messages. Although some experts has confirmed ...

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 ...

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 ...