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Encrypt Documents LibreOffice

How to Encrypt Your Documents with LibreOffice

There are times when you need to protect a document with confidential data. Learn how you can use LibreOffice to create and encrypt your important documents.

By Nick Congleton – Dec 20, 2018

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How to Encrypt Your Partitions on Linux with dm-crypt

If you have data you want to protect, you can create an encrypted container. Here’s how to set up an encrypted partition in Linux to safely store your data.

By Alexandru Andrei – Dec 3, 2018

Encryption Made Easy: Stuff You Can Do with Gpg4win

Thanks to the Gpg4win program suite, it’s now very easy to encrypt your files and message. This article shows how you can use it to encrypt/decrypt your files.

By Andrew Braun – May 9, 2018

Will Quantum Computing Render HTTPS Obsolete And Throw Your Security Away?

Quantum computers can solve problems much faster than any classic computer, including cracking your encryption. How will this affect your security? Let’s find out!

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Nov 6, 2017

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How to Create an Encrypted USB with VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a powerful cross-platform tool for encrypting files and drives. Learn how to use it to encrypt your portable USB drives.

By Nick Congleton – Aug 2, 2017

How to Send Encrypted Email on Android

Here’s a quick method to send encrypted email on Android and to ensure that your emails are encrypted all the way from one end to the other.

By Robert Zak – May 29, 2017

How to Encrypt Files and Folders with VeraCrypt in Ubuntu

if you have documents that you don’t want others to access, it is best to encrypt them. Here is how to encrypt files and folders with Veracrypt in Ubuntu.

By Ayo Isaiah – May 5, 2017

How to Perform Full-Disk Encryption in Windows 10

Looking to encrypt and secure the data in your hard disk? Here is how you can perform a full-disk encryption in Windows 10 to protect your data.

By Alexander Fox – Apr 27, 2017

How to Encrypt Your iOS and Mac Backups

When you encrypt your backup files, make sure that no one can access your data if they got ahold of it. Learn how to encrypt iOS and Mac backups in this article.

By Corbin Telligman – Apr 9, 2017

How to Turn on Encryption in Facebook Messenger

For those who are using Messenger, Facebook added an encryption feature last October. Here is how you can turn encryption on in your Facebook Messenger.

By Samantha Donaldson – Mar 21, 2017

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Why and How to Encrypt Your Files on macOS

Encrypting files is something that all of us should be doing. Here are some useful software tools to encrypt your files on macOS.

By Alexander Fox – Oct 14, 2016

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How to Encrypt Your Files Before Uploading to the Cloud with Cryptomator

Cryptomator is an open source app that encrypts files before uploading to the cloud. Here’s how to use it to apply client-side encryption to cloud files.

By Himanshu Arora – Aug 19, 2016

5 Ways to Encrypt Email for Linux

Email is still important for business, and it is necessary to keep it encrypted. Here are 5 ways you can encrypt your email on Linux!

By Derrik Diener – Aug 9, 2016

4 Great File Encryption Tools For Pre-Marshmallow Android

4 Great File Encryption Tools for Pre-Marshmallow Android

Android Marshmallow requires most phones to be encrypted, but no one seems to care about pre-Marshmallow devices. These file encryption tools help secure older devices.

By Derrik Diener – Jul 12, 2016

No One is Exempt: 6 Important Privacy Habits Everyone Should Practice

No One Is Exempt: 6 Important Privacy Habits Everyone Should Practice

No one is exempt from being hacked, getting an identity stolen or any other privacy issue. Therefore, we’ve listed 6 important privacy habits everyone should follow.

By Derrik Diener – Jun 30, 2016

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Do You Bother with Messaging Apps That Use Encryption?

The focus lately on keeping personal information safe has now spread to some messaging apps that offer encryption. Do you bother with messaging apps that use encryption?

By Laura Tucker – Mar 31, 2016

Everything You Need to Know About Apple vs. the FBI

Apple has rejected the FBI’s request to create a back door for iOS. Here is what you need to know about the Apple vs. FBI saga.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Feb 26, 2016

Why Everyone Is Abandoning SHA-1 Encryption

Why Everyone Is Abandoning SHA-1 Encryption

The Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) has been an instrumental tool in the fight against hackers. While SHA-1 has been the standard, it’s now being abandoned for SHA-2. Here’s why.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Dec 18, 2015

Cryptographic Backdoors Explained

Cryptography is supposed to keep you safe, but what if there is a backdoor that allows the government access to your account? What would be its consequence? Let’s find out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 30, 2015

Beginners guide to installing, using, and configuring Net-SNMP - Part 2

Beginners Guide to Installing, Using, and Configuring Net-SNMP – Part 2

In part 2 of this series, we explain how you can configure the Net-SNMP agent as well as set up authentication and encryption.

By Himanshu Arora – Mar 12, 2015

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Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

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A species of jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp stage when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle, and biologists have so far failed to identify any natural limit to how many times it can do this.

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Octopuses possess roughly 500 million neurons distributed across their body, with two-thirds located in their arms rather than their central brain, meaning each arm can taste, problem-solve, and react to stimuli independently of whatever the octopus is otherwise paying attention to.

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Explore the historic Roman bridge in lush Salamanca, Spain captured beautifully in daylight.

The Roman aqueduct at Segovia, built around the first century AD without mortar, still carried water into the 1970s, its 167 granite arches held together by nothing but the precise weight distribution of stones cut to fit each other within fractions of a millimeter.

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In 1843, Ada Lovelace described a brass-and-punched-card engine that could act on symbols as well as numbers, even composing music if harmony could be reduced to rules, inside seven translator’s notes three times longer than the paper itself

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ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

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