Secured email messaging through Lockbin

Many email services today use SSL, the secured Service language to protect the privacy of your messages. But your emails are still not safe. There are lots of freely available programs on the Internet, which can sniff your message easily, specially at the Hi Fi spots.

Lockbin, is a special and free online web tool, which encrypts your message with a code words supplied by you and sends an email to the recipient along with a link to retrieve the message. However, the recipient can read the message only if he enters the code word, with which you had encrypted the message. Now it is upto you how you send the code word to the recipient, it can be through IN, chat, email or phone.

Simple service, but still useful.

File Shredder | A free webtool to destroy your files completely from PC memory

Hitting "Del" key doesn't delete the files from your disk. It only deletes its directory information so that it is not listed and identified by the operating system. But do you know, there are several softwares available, which can easily retrieve this file, leading to possible misuse of it by some unscrupulous person.

Frightened, you need not. There are many programs available on the Internet, which does the shredding job for you. In fact they usually re-write the target file with a random string of data multiple times and thus make it unusable, even after retrieval.

File Shredder (Download here, 1.5 Mb) is one such program, and it is free. It use five different algorithms to shred the target file into binary pieces.

So next time you want to completely feel secured, use these softwares.

A simple way to keep your files secured

If you work on a shared computer, then there is always a threat of loosing important personal information on your computer to others.

Windows XP has a very simple built-in secured tool to encrypt your important files, which will be not available to other users of your computer. Here is how?

• For encryption: Right click on file name > Properties > General Tab > Advanced button > Check the option "Encrypt content to secure data". Multiple files / folders can be encrypted in one go.

• For giving permission to any other user to access an encrypted file: Right click on file name > Properties > General Tab > Advanced button > Details > Add (whichever user you like).

• To stand-out the excrypted files: Open Explorer > Tools Menu > Folder Options > View Tab > Advanced setting box > Select "Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color". This will change the color of the name of all the encrypted files so as to enable you to recognize them easily.
  

For more advanced encryption: You can Download True Crypt from PC World, which is a free, open-source encryption program that lets you place files and folders in "safes" of any size.