When you’re using cloud storage services like Box.net, Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive you should always make sure your files are encrypted. Everything that you haven’t voluntary posted online should be encrypted. Unfortunately when I say you should always encrypt your files, there’s at least someone claiming “I don’t have …

Since Truecrypt.org removed version 7.1 and claimed it’s no longer working because it’s unsecure (insecure), many people have wanted to get the previous version of Truecrypt. Searching in for example Google or Bing for “Truecrypt 7.1” or “Truecrypt 7.1a” (which is the last version before 7.2) will only list “mirrors” …

Secure Sockets Layer or SSL is almost always present whenever we are surfing the Internet. We don’t see it at work but its function is most vital to protect the information we transmit through the Internet.

Did your password  got cracked during the LinkedIn , Eharmony or Last.fm hack this month? If that’s the case then you really need to re-check your password policy. Yes, even private persons need a “password policy ” to survive these days.

Malware is something we all have to watch out for. The person surfing the web should of course only visit sites that belong to reputable companies they know will clean their site from malware if the horrible would happen and the site owners should do everything they can to prevent …

Most of us have a Dropbox account and since it’s important to keep your backups on a different server than the one where you host your blog it would be ideal to backup your blog database and upload files to Dropbox.

Some of us have been active bloggers for quite some time now (this blogs database dates back all the way to 2006 as an example), which means that the data is quite valuable and must be protected from loss, theft and destruction.

Most of us don’t even spend a second a day thinking about boring backups and how to restore our files, until the day our computer crash! The question we ask then is: Did I have something important on the computer? When we actually should think: Alright, lets restore everything!

The news that one of the most important people to the technology development for the last 30 year had passed away in cancer hadn’t been publicly known for more than an hour or so before the first scam sites started showing up in the search engine results. The vultures where …