Security is a feature usually built in each software. However, users often have to give up software that is pretty useful otherwise but don’t provide adequate security and privacy features. OTRProxy solves this problem by letting you make your IM tool secure. Once installed and configured, all your messages communicated through your IM client pass [...]
If you are unsure about the level of protection that native messaging applications such as Facebook Chat have to offer, it is time you switched to encrypted communication. An app called “CryptoCat” could be exactly what you are looking for. CryptoCat is a free to use web app that offers users an encrypted chat interface. [...]
You probably know that the information you share over email or instant messages isn’t impregnable, meaning it can be viewed by individuals or agencies with malicious intent. So how do you go about sharing really confidential info over the web? There are a few ways to do that but if you need a quick solution, [...]
While file storage sites such as Dropbox provide a wonderful convenience, you have to be cautious while uploading sensitive files to such services. Although these sites take strict security measures, your file still has a chance of being accessed by somebody other than yourself. To ensure that files are only viewable to you or people [...]
If you send emails through an unsecure channel, it would be a wise move to encrypt them. This can be done through simply encoding the text contained within your email. Such a text-encryption can be performed using a tool called Encipher It. You can encode your text using the tool’s website or use its bookmarklet [...]
The security of your data on your smartphone has become an issue of increasing importance. Various applications let you lock your data on your smartphone but if you are an Android phone user looking for a data encryption app, then check out WhisperCore. WhisperCore is a free to use smartphone application for Android devices. It [...]
uProtect.it is an application for Facebook that aims to make your Facebook comments and photos more secure in a number of ways. First, it hides your comments and status updates from Facebook itself. How does it do that? Simple, it encrypts them. So you have full control over who can see your comments. The same [...]
PDFs are one of the most popular document formats but securing your PDFs is usually not that easy. You wouldn’t want to purchase the expensive Adobe Acrobat software just to encrypt few documents. This is where PDFProtect comes in. It is a free online tool that lets you easily password protect PDF files online. Simply [...]
E-mail serves as the primary medium of communication on the internet especially among our business and professional contacts. However, the easy access to the internet has given us the false sense of security against people that can do harm and steal our data and identity. ePostal is an online service that provides an extra layer [...]
Emailing is a relatively secure mode of transferring information. But you cannot be fully sure that the recipient will be the only person reading the email. To protect your message from such interceptions, you can employ text encryption and decryption tool Encrypt Easy. Encrypt Easy is a very simple text encryption tool that does a [...]