The free, open-source TrueCrypt file encryption program allows you to create encrypted container files for protecting sensitive data. These container files appear just like any other file, which ...

Windows (7), and SyncBack for that matter, don't recognize that a change has been made to a file encrypted by TrueCrypt. This plays hell with backups that look for file size or date changes. Is there ...

Unless you encrypt your files, outsiders can easily gain access to them–even without knowing your Windows password–by booting into their own operating system from a special disc or from a bootable USB ...

Though encryption is a strong way to safeguard passwords, personal information, and other sensitive data, it can be confusing due to the acronyms and technobabble that surround the topic. The tool has ...

The page then went on to offer suggestions on how to make the migration, including a variety of screen images. For those not familiar, TrueCrypt is a file encryption tool which (in its most common ...

I have an 8 gig Corsair FlashVoyager GT that I use one day every week to copy a bunch of files for transport. I use robocopy to copy the files to a 7.5 gig TrueCrypt volume. The contents of the copy ...

Today is the first in what will be a weekly series from me here on Open Source Fact and Fiction. I call it Open Source Friday Focus. Every week we will highlight an open source project that I think ...

Message from TrueCrypt that it’s being discontinued on SourceForge.net. The abrupt discontinuation of the disk and file encryption freeware TrueCrypt by its secretive software developers has left many ...

Unicode, the wonderful extension to to ASCII that gives us gems like “ ”, “⌨”, and “☕”, has had some unexpected security ramifications. The most common problems with Unicode are visual security issues ...