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December 2nd, 2011 | 
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Today the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times are running several articles about Yahoo Email accounts of several journalists having been hacked in China and Taiwan.
As a matter of fact, journalists sometimes undertake research on very sensitive topics, thereby often exchanging various documents and messages via Email, containing highly confidential information. It is absolutely essential to ensure that sensitive information between a journalist and an informant, but also in communicating with the editor´s office, can by no means be intercepted or interpreted by any unauthorized individuals. Needless to say that in some regions any leak can actually be very dangerous as well.
Also informants want to ensure that information and documents provided to a trusted journalist will be shared only on an as-needed basis. In essence, information shall only be accessible to the journalist or – at best – selected individuals around the journalist only, and should not be copied or forwarded to any third individuals. Even in case that this were allowed, the informant may want to know who the information has been shared with, and when and how.
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Data on your USB drive is probably less secure than anything else connected with your computer. USB drives are small, which is great news until you put one down somewhere safe and then try to find it again. Anyone could have picked up your flash drive, so using should be high up on your list. Before disaster strikes!
There are lots of different USB drive secure software programs available. So knowing where to start is essential otherwise you’ll be forever choosing rather than just dithering and ending up doing nothing. With the result that when (not if) your USB drive gets lost, your data is available to all and sundry.
There are a number of free USB security programs available but several of these were written a while ago and don’t necessarily cope with modern USB drive sizes. The size of flash drives has grown exponentially over recent years and is sufficiently big that older software hadn’t even dreamed of the storage capabilities and just gives up rather than protects your pen drive. Not exactly what you need to happen.
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Your checklist for the software you choose to make your USB drive secure should include the following:
Because of recent events and reports on Bloomberg and other media, Opolis Secure Mail has started an initiative to support “Secure Flirting in the Middle East” on Facebook and Twitter.
As Bloomberg – among others – reports, dating and meeting of unmarried couples may get harder as the State of Saudi Arabia pressed Research In Motion Ltd. to let it monitor BlackBerry messages. The Bloomberg report continues that many among the country’s growing youth population rely on technology to bypass social restrictions. RIM’s BlackBerry messenger service were one of the most popular means, and posting access codes that let users chat with one another on rear car windows and Internet group pages is a common flirting technique.
As a response, Opolis Secure Mail (http://www.opolis.eu) has started an initiative to support secure flirting of boys and girls in the Middle East. Opolis users communicate entirely safe via encrypted emails on servers in Western Europe, and for free! – The Facebook Fan-Site is a means to collect further support for this topic.
With Opolis all messages and attached documents are securely sender-to-recipient encrypted and can therefore not be read by anyone else. The sender can monitor and follow the entire path of a message. Hence, the sender sees immediately if and when the recipient has opened the mail and the attached document.
So pleasant it may be – flirting can be a delicate affair: Not only governments may be watching (as is the case in several Middle Eastern countries), but also when flirts or relations come to an end, partners may be exposed or even threatened by their email or SMS communication trails. This may even get worse when photos had previously been exchanged …
Secure flirting is possible with Opolis Secure Mail (http://www.opolis.eu). And that’s why Opolis has also launched an initiative on Twitter and Facebook to support secure flirting of boys and girls, especially in the Middle East: “Secure Flirting in the Middle East”.
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As a matter of fact, all Opolis users – including flirtageous youngsters – communicate entirely safe via encrypted emails on servers in Western Europe, and for free!
With Opolis all messages and attached documents, such as photos, are securely sender-to-recipient encrypted and can therefore not be read by anyone else. The sender can monitor and follow the entire path of a message. Hence, the sender sees immediately if and when the recipient has opened the mail and the attached document.
With the millions of flash drives in use today a secure flash drive is essential for averting breaches of security. The number of security breaches reported has risen almost 50% and is likely to continue to rise. While the secure flash drive has makes data incredibly mobile it also makes it more vulnerable to loss and theft. If you are using less then secure flash drive you might want to look into SanDisk Enterprise. They produce a secure flash drive that features top of the line security including anti-virus software which drastically reduces the chances of uploading a virus to the operating system via a flash drive.
The use of secure flash drive is necessary to prevent attacks on the valuable data they contain. Security software for flash drives is called anti-malware and can stop data corruption. This anti-virus software when part of a secure flash drive prevents the flash drive from playing host to a virus which then may be uploaded to an operating system. McAfee a global security company provides software for SanDisk Enterprise’s secure flash drive. It scans the flash drive for potential attacks to the host operating system and quarantines them. The software is so effective it removes the threat of attack before it has an opportunity to access the operating system.