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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

At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts say

At 30, crypto still lacks usability, experts sayActually, they said Crypto lacks user awarenessActually, they said Crypto lacks user awareness. Then they said it lacked usability.The fact of the mater is, it's actually lack of demand, the software could be easier to use, and the Certificate Authority cartel called...

Tags: SECURITY, user awareness, GPG, TrueCrypt, verification process

Discussion threads 2006-10-28

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IlohaMail 0.8.14rc3 (Mac)

IlohaMail (pronounced: e-lo-ha-mail) is a light weight yet full featured multilingual webmail program that is easy to use and install. It runs on a stock build of PHP, and does not require databases although database support is available or the IMAP library (it is powered by a custom IMAP/POP3 library)....

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Development, Ilohamail.org, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

Software downloads 2009-08-22

Why do email Digital Signatures have to be such a pain in the ass?

Use Help in NotesI got to the part where it allows you to import a pkcs12 and PKCS7 file quite easily using it.However, the whole thing is stupid. I could easily "fake" a certificate by sending the verification to numerous e-mail accounts to trick the system into trusting me.RE:...

Tags: Digital signatures, Authentication/Encryption, Digital security, SECURITY, email digital signature, digital signature, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-08-18

Geek Sheet: Virtualizing Free Linux Distributions in Windows Server 2008 R2

It's been a while since we've had a hardcore Geek Sheet installment, and I promise that this one will be a real winner. Some of you may be aware that the updated Hyper-V bare-metal hypervisor virtualization layer in Microsoft's upcoming Windows Server 2008 R2 (Which is due...

Tags: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Linux Distribution, Mouse, Network, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V, SLES, LinuxIC, OpenSUSE 11.1, ENTER, Linux, UNIX, Open Source, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-08-09

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

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoption

Prioritizing bugs to boost Linux adoptionGood idea. One of my gripes has already been written aboutright here: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12554-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=62587&messageID=1175162#7468564444263411314&authId=Z6HGiN/lieHAYr2cBP3nkh6ZvIQSz/q5p+rs/WKQqRniE3yqBqrAzZ3UEVN5DV2K- KcWindows applications under WINE......have to be well written apps, conforming to Microsoft's Windows API's. Any application that uses "tricks", or undocumented calls, will not work under WINE. I would not refer to...

Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Linux Apps, Linux-adoption, Linux, wine, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-04-18

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

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

GPGMail 1.2 (Mac)

GPGMail is a plug-in for Apple's Mail, providing a front-end to gpg for some operations.GPGMail extends Apple's Mail application and allows you to read and send authenticated and/or encrypted messages. You can use PGP for plain text and MIME messages, following RFC 3156. GPGMail sources are available.

Tags: Message, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Stéphane Corthésy, GPGMail, GPGMail Source

Software downloads 2008-12-30

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

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

Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1

Adventures with open source apps on Linux - Part 1Great! Some multimedia tips.In the sequel you might find it handy to include the swiftest way to add the missing restricted multimedia-codecs, plus a new thing on Sun Java (new since 8.04):- establish internet connection- Applications - Add/Remove- Show: all available...

Tags: open source, OpenOffice Draw, multimedia, Medibuntu, Linux, w32codec, Click Apply, plug-in

Discussion threads 2008-05-23

GPG GUI 1 (Windows)

GPG GUI allows any file to be password protected and decrypted at a later time. The encryption is based on libgcrypt and is unbreakable. Files are completely secure, and can be sent to other users so that they can decrypt the contents at a later time. Version 1 includes unspecified...

Tags: Encryption, Gary, GPG GUI, Files, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2008-04-16

LinuxCBT OpenPGP Edition 20080303 (Windows)

OpenPGP is the most widely used method of bullet-proof data encryption. It encompasses: Digital signatures, encryption symmetric and asymmetric, decryption, key management, e-mail encryption, among other features. Gnu Privacy Guard GPG provides an Open Source implementation of OpenPGP (RFC 2440), and is compatible with commercial PGP products.

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Encryption, LinuxGenius, OpenPGP, Gnu Privacy Guard, E-mail, Digital Signatures, Security, Online Communications

Software downloads 2008-03-03

Gmail disabled, eggs in one basket, etc.

Gmail disabled, eggs in one basket, etc.LOLComputing in the 'cloud' makes your head spin, doesn't it?Or maybe the it's cloud-computing spin-machine....This is why I cringe at thin clients......because it doesn't matter how good your backups are, if the server goes down nobody can work. Unless, of course, you can get...

Tags: E-mail providers, Google Gmail, IMAP, KMail, backup

Discussion threads 2008-02-20

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

Gpg Tools 1.2.1 (Mac)

Allows encryption, decryption, signing and verification of documents with a graphical interface by using gpg, the Mac OS X replacement for PGP. Gpg Tools adds an Aqua interface similar to that of Classic Mac OS's PGPtools - making the command-line gpg tool a little friendlier to use.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Tom Sutcliffe, Gpg Tools, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2008-01-03

Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?

Blu-ray BD copy protection defeated?Expected to be unbreakable?By whom? All the decryption keys are in the playback device, it's just a matter of probing for them.I've yet to read of Blu-Ray hurting the consumer (except for all the usual 'regions' garbage) in an obvious way e.g. key rejection causing...

Tags: copy protection

Discussion threads 2007-10-30

Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spam

Comcast, BitTorrent and spam spam spamFYIThe link is to an Associated Press story verifying the existance of the BitTorrent filter on the Comcast network. The test was done by sending out The Bible via BitTorrent -- it's only a 4.24 Mb file.Complete story athttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_testsAP tests Comcast's file-sharing filter[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071019/ap_on_hi_te/comcast_data_discrimination_tests]FYI[/url]RE: Comcast, BitTorrent...

Tags: Cyberthreats, INTERNET, Peer to peer (P2P), BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., spam, spam spam spam, OpenPGP

Discussion threads 2007-10-20