School of Privacy

The easiest way to secure your USB thumb drive is to use hardware based encryption, these secure USB flash drive will cipher every single bit of data stored in them and are trouble free to use for users, there is no learning curve.

However, just because you are using encryption it does not mean you are safe, you will need to make sure that nobody can crack it, choose an USB thumb drive with no backdoor encrypted with a well known attack resistant algorithm like AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and if you are going to use it in a business environment choose a FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) certified thumbdrive.

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A Linux distro to look forward to, the idea is great and they need help with their project. Check it out.

From their site:

The goal of Project Byzantium is to develop a communication system by which users can connect to each other and share information in the absence of convenient access to the Internet.  This is done by setting up an ad-hoc wireless mesh network that offers services which replace popular websites often used for this purpose, such as Twitter and IRC.

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Project vaccine, the world’s first open source anti Malware software.. made with the aim of completely wiping off all the Malware from the entire cyber space…

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Ever wanted to create a Multiboot Live USB drive for booting multiple Linux Distros? This can be done with Yumi, One of our favorite tools.

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So you want to use Backtrack 5? [With Pictures/Windows/Mac/Linux]

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Universal USB Installer is a Live Linux USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive. The Universal USB Installer is easy to use. Simply choose a Live Linux Distribution, the ISO file, your Flash Drive and, Click Install. Upon completion, you should have a ready to run bootable USB Flash Drive with your select operating system installed. Other features include;Persistence (if available) – note that casper persistence will only work with fat16 or fat32 formatted drives.

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Lock all existing USB ports on the computer. This application is very useful if you restrict the use of the USB port on your computer for security reasons.

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PREDATOR locks your PC when you are away, even if your Windows session is still opened.
It uses a regular USB flash drive as an access control device, and works as follows:

• you insert the USB drive
• you run PREDATOR (autostart with Windows is possible)
• you do your work…
• when you’re away from your PC, you simply remove the USB drive:
   once it is removed, the keyboard and mouse are disabled and the screen darkens
• when you return back to your PC, you put the USB flash drive in place:
   keyboard and mouse are immediately released, and the display is restored.

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