Internet is a infinite source of free software! If you are looking for a small tool to automate tasks, convert files or make your life easier, there are chances that somebody around the world already wrote some code and distributed it for free on the Net. But, on a security
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Brrrrrrr!
In a previous post, I talked about whole disk encryption. More and more security incidents are reports by medias were laptop are stolen or list in the nature with thousands of ultra-confidential-top-secret-data. That’s why disk encryption becomes a hot topic at the moment. A “hot” topic? In fact, it’s more
while(true) { reboot(); }
For the family usage, we have a laptop running Vista. Yesterday, the system suddenly requested to restart the OS without alternative. After the first reboot, I got the following screen: The laptop started an infinite loop of patch install, reboot, patch install, reboot, … I googled the message and found
You said “Goolag”?
The Cult of the Death Cow team is back with a new toy called Goolag. One more time, the Google search engine power is diverted to help webmasters to find security breaches in their web site(s). Of course, as a good boy, you will always use Goolag against your own
Why Reboot?
I just read a blog post whick talks about a very nice small tool: WhyReboot?. Helas for us, often when we install a new application on a Windows system, the last message is: “To complete the installation, Windows must be rebooted“. In fact, it’s not the OS itself which requires
More TrueCrypt Stress Tests
Now that I’ve a fully encrypted disk… Let’s stress it! Just after the encryption process, I started Windows Update and installed 22 (!) patches. This operation generated lot of I/O. The system speed was “normal” (well, slow but normal for a P3 system). No big issue! No software complaint. It’s
M$ Patch Joke
623MB of patches? WTF!
Ultimate Toolbox for Windows Systems
The saga continues with my whole disk encryption test! I faced the problem described here: Soft errors on my drive which prevented TrueCrypt to perform its job correctly. In the forum, somebody used UCDB4WIN and successfully encrypted its disk. I used the same toolbox. It scanned my disk, found a
TrueCrypt Whole Disk Encryption Test
In my previous post, I spoke about the new feature introduced in TrueCrypt 5.0: the whole disk encryption. This is a killer feature for all of us who carry lot of sensitive data on our notebook hard drives. The data mobility became a hot topic in IT security for the
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released
A new release of TrueCrypt is out! For those who still do not know this product, its a free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista, Windows XP , Mac OS X, or Linux. Full partitions or storage devices (USB sticks) can be encrypted or virtual disk can be created