San Francisco – A team including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Princeton University, and other researchers have found a major security flaw in several popular disk encryption technologies that leaves encrypted data vulnerable to attack and exposure.
“People trust encryption to protect sensitive data when their computer is out of their immediate control,” said EFF Staff [...]

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Here is something hackers might not want you to know. Windows NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista all support NTFS, which you most likely already knew, but what you may not know is a relatively unknown attribute in the NTFS File System called Alternate Data Stream (ADS). ADS is a Technology that allows the system to store multiple files (Data [...]

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