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Quickpost: Disassociating the Key From a TrueCrypt System Disk

10

Feb

2012

TrueCrypt allows for full disk encryption of a system disk. I use it on my Windows machines.You probably know that the TrueCrypt password you type is not the key. But it is, simply put, used to decrypt the master key that is in the volume header.On a system drive, the volume header is stored in […]

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BIOS threat is showing up again!

09

Sep

2011

There are more and more known viruses that infect the MBR (Master Boot Record). Symantec Security Response has published a blog to demonstrate this trend last month. However, we seldom confront with one that infects the BIOS. One of them is the notorious CIH appeared in 1999, which infected the computer BIOS and thus harmed a […]

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EU to urge shorter data breach notification times

24

Jun

2011

Following a string of data breach notifications which seem to be less than forthcoming, the EU is urging much stricter guidelines for data breach reporting timelines. It a recent article, European Commissioner Viviane Reding was shocked “that companies needed two or three weeks to inform people that their personal data had been stolen.” Recently I […]

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