A (very) Quick Look at LockNote

While listening to a recent episode of the Security Now! podcast I caught mention of an interesting product called LockNote. In short, this is an application that looks a lot like Notepad but encrypts your docs and saves them as part of the executable. Great stuff for portable applications.

It really is quite simple to

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Encrypting SQL Server 2005 Backups

There just doesn’t seem to be an elegant way to encrypt SQL Server 2005 backups. It certainly isn’t a built-in option and I’ve been spending time this week trying to think up something “elegant” to accomplish this.

Allow me to share today’s journey with you.

First Take

Many moons ago I didn’t bother with encrypting my database backups.

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WordPress Upgraders — Did You Miss New Security?

If you’ve just upgraded your WordPress blog — as opposed to a new install — it is possible that you’ve missed out on a new security feature introduced with WordPress 2.5x. Why do I think that’s possible? Well, because I did.

WP 2.5 introduced a “security key” that you add to your wp-config.php file. When I

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TrueCrypt updates

TrueCrypt is a big part of keeping my work laptop secure. Dunno about you, but I live in mortal fear of losing a mobile machine that also happens to be my primary work computer! I have created a handful of encrypted volumes on it for some of our more “proprietary” documents and have

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TrueCrypt – open-source disk encryption

Man, I hope these snow forecasts are even somewhat close to reality…

Been playing with TrueCrypt a bit this afternoon. Peter has mentioned it to me a few times via IM. It was mentioned on this week’s Security Now podcast. Seemed like I should have a look based on what I was hearing.

The

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