All together now “Encryption”
PGP Came out 15 years ago. Ever since their has been cheap, effective security tools available to the masses. To make it easier, WINDOWS ALLOWS YOU TO ENCRYPT FILE SYSTEMS. We should ALL be using some sort of encryption to lock down out sensitive data but yet we have the VA theft and now this …
BetaNews | Laptop Theft Exposes 243k Credit Cards
The theft of a laptop out of an Ernst & Young employee’s car has turned into a massive data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of users of the travel-booking site Hotels.com. Altogether, the names and credit card data of some 243,000 customers have been compromised.
UPDATE: If you have need of an encrypted filesystem but are worried about MSFT’s <sarcasym>steller</sarcasym> record on security you can checkout True Crypt a utlity that provides “on the fly” encrypted file systems. Dap for this goes to Travis Taylor
