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Social networks have taught us cryptography (probably) won

Social networks have taught us cryptography probably wonYou don't get itWhat you are missing is that if a mandate were applied that caused all emails to have signed keys, that would require the bots to follow suit or simply get shunted by ISPs that could follow guidelines for handling mail...

Tags: E-mail, Digital security, social networking, network, level attack, authentication method, bot, GnuPG, password, cryptography

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

GnuPG 1.4.3 (Windows)

GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use the patented IDEA algorithm, it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 OpenPGP compliant application.

Tags: PGP Corp., GnuPG.org, GnuPG, Microsoft Windows, Engineering, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2006-04-12

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Enigmail 0.96.0 (Windows)

Enigmail adds OpenPGP message encryption and authentication to your email client. It features automatic encryption, decryption and integrated key management functionality. Enigmail requires GnuPG (www.gnupg.org) for the cryptographic functions, which is not included in the installation.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Encryption, Enigmail, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-23

Enigmail 0.96 (Mac)

Enigmail is an extension to the mail client of Mozilla / Netscape and Mozilla Thunderbird which allows users to access the authentication and encryption features provided by GnuPG.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., Enigmail, E-mail Clients, Software

Software downloads 2009-07-17

Five IT security pet peeves

Guest post: Anyone who cares about a field of expertise â€" really cares about it â€" must have some annoyances about things that could, even should, be better, but aren’t for what seem like the dumbest of reasons. TechRepublic's Chad Perrin shares five of his pet peeves in the realm...

Tags: Pet, IT Security, Information Technology, Security, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-06

Mailcloak for Mail Clients 1.0 (Windows)

MailCloak is Global Web Security Systems breakthrough encryption program. MailCloak for Mail Clients was designed from the ground up to be the first encryption program for all mail clients, while making GnuPG public-key encryption so simple anyone can use it. MailCloak works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora and more....

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Global Web Security Systems, Mailcloak, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, E-mail Clients, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2009-05-06

GnuPG 1.4.9 (Mac)

This archive contains a file that will install GnuPG binaries for Mac OS X. GnuPG is the GNU Privacy Guard, an OpenPGP client. It provides access to public key cryptography for use in encrypting and signing emails (or anything!). GnuPG is a command line tool and is licensed under the...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, GnuPG 1.4.9, Desktops, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-03-24

EPIC claim on Google Docs rings hollow

EPIC claim on Google Docs rings hollowMore suits need to be filed.Technology companies have gotten the idea that the are simply not accountable when they screw up. This goes way past Google. It is high time that technology companies be held accountable. From the cloud to the OS. If you...

Tags: E-mail, Spam, Big Issue, Google Inc., EPIC, Google Docs

Discussion threads 2009-03-18

MailCloak for Firefox 1.0 (Windows)

MailCloak is a groundbreaking new GPG encryption plug-in from Global Web Security Systems gWebs. MailCloak was designed from the ground up to be the first encryption killer app for IE, FF & mail clients. The Firefox version of MailCloak uses the GNU Privacy Guard (Aka. GnuPG, aka. GPG) to automatically...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Windows, Key, Global Web Security Systems, MailCloak, GPG, E-mail, Online Communications

Software downloads 2009-03-16

Spam: You just can

Spam: You just canI have won!I have blocked the entire world except for the United States and a few IP ranges have been blocked due to the fact they are spammers from overseas...After blocking the Eastern world my problems went away!:)Yes, you can win against SPAM.Here's one solution: create a...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, e-mail, spammer

Discussion threads 2009-01-30

Apple dashboard widget vulnerability published

An article republished by the author here in the Autumn 2008 issue of 2600 Magazine details a pretty serious vulnerability with Apple's dashboard widgets that could allow access to data on the user's hard drive. Since we may access the system with user privileges, we may edit/remove/create files within...

Tags: Vulnerability, Dashboard, Apple Inc., Widget, Security, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-12-23

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammers

Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail systematically abused by spammersI could have told them that for free.They needed a study and a report to tell them that The big 3 are little more than Spam sewers these days?Like I keep saying...my mail servers would be shut down if they were spewing spam....

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail providers, spam, PGP Corp., e-mail, Google Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-10

With or without McColo, spam volume increasing again

With or without McColo, spam volume increasing againProposalLet's start sending all paper mail with no envelopes.Why not? What's that you say? Privacy? Hmmm. That's reasonable.Then, maybe we should send emails enclosed in 'envelopes', Yes?What a great idea! Envelopes. (I kid.)Seriously, What is obvious to me is...

Tags: Spam, Domain names, e-mail, spammer

Discussion threads 2008-12-09

PGPNotes 1.5.2 (Windows)

PGPNotes enables Lotus Notes users to conveniently encrypt and decrypt messages/attachments using PGP or GnuPG, all from within the Notes client itself. Currently, PGP is the de-facto standard for strong encryption of Internet email. Since US prohibits the export of software which incorporates strong encryption, PGP is practically the only...

Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows, Encryption, PGP Corp., PGPNotes, E-mail Servers, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Security, Software

Software downloads 2008-10-29

US proposes DNS fix: digital signatures

US proposes DNS fix: digital signaturesGold mineExpect that if VeriSign has the key authority, they'll require VeriSign certificates. In effect, this will amount to VeriSign being paid for every domain, and considering the number of domains at stake and VeriSign's rates, that's a [b]very[/b] large sum of money that...

Tags: Domain names, NETWORKING, SECURITY, DNS, VeriSign Inc., e-mail, DNS machine, centralized authority, DNSSEC, digital signature

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Attacking phishing at the source

Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint

Discussion threads 2008-07-09

Major career web sites hit by spammers attack

Major career web sites hit by spammers attackStealing data is one thing and spamming is anotherThe only way to stop spam is at its orginating point.If ISPs were encouraged to follow a mandate for testing the validity of a source e-mail (vis-a-vis test for PGP MIME signature) all non-comformant email...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Spam, spammers attack, career Web sites, e-mail

Discussion threads 2008-05-12

Storm worm goes phishing

Storm worm goes phishingFast Flux[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_flux]FYI[/url]A 100% reliable solution to stopping spam is to move to PGP or OpenPGP (e.g. [url=http://gnupg.org/]Gnu Privacy Guard[/url]) with signed certificates.As such, the spam will be excluded from your trusted PGP encrypted 'channel' and you can safely ignore.Until this becomes mandated, you'll be left to your...

Tags: Cyberthreats, E-mail providers, KMail, spam, Google Gmail, Storm Worm, phishing

Discussion threads 2008-01-10

Maintain the integrity and confidentiality of your data with these encryption tools

The days of totally private networks are long gone. Today, there is no way to avoid sending your business data outside of your network. Nor would you want to; sharing information with business partners and customers in the outside world is the biggest advantage of a global Internet....

Tags: Network, Prentice Hall Inc., Tool, Chapter Coverage, Internet, Open Source, Security

Book chapters 2007-10-11

A hundred million miracles

A hundred million miraclesDoes not anybody at ZDnet actually Use LinuxDaily for both work & play.Sorry, if I seem to harp on this, and may seem OT, But is this not the place to bring it up?I mean in the blog listing in several places, this Blog is called; "Linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Linux, open source

Discussion threads 2007-09-19