President of Black Umbrella, Catherine Hooper says:

“We scan, store and digitize people’s critical documents, wills, trusts, powers of attorney, insurance documents. We put them on a special, secure thumb drive called an IronKey. “

Whilst only a small part of what people cope with in a disaster, you can have peace of mind knowing your IronKey will safely store your secure documents.

You can read the full interview with Catherine Hooper over at MSNbc.

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Key points:

• The encryption is hardware-based 256-bit AES validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology  to meet the Level 3 criteria of FIPS 140-2. AES is the Advanced Encryption Standard adopted by the U.S. government.
• The IronKey goes the extra mile past the 256-bit encryption standard by using the FIPS 140-2 Level Three criteria that make it difficult to physically tamper with the IronKey, including features such its rugged metal casing and sealed internal components.
• The system is safe from malware or cold-boot attacks because the drive does not export AES encryption keys to the host PC. If anyone tries a brute-force attack based on password guesses, after 10 incorrect passwords all encrypted data is erased.

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The theft of the confidential information (in this case, email addresses) can enable hackers to use phishing to trick the customer into revealing further confidential information.  In this case, this data could reveal where the customers, then the hacker could sucessfully direct the customer to a a website which looks like a legitimate banking site, but in truth, is not.

Practical steps you can take include checking new emails addresses against previous emails from the bank, warning family members (especially younger ones) about the dangers, and checking links in emails before you click on them.

View the full article here.

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Here are some handy hints to ensure that you aren’t the cause of your own IronKey self destructing:

• store the password in your personal account on my.ironkey.com
• securely backup your IronKey files on your PC, note though that if you lose your IronKey, you need to have another IronKey in order to access this data.

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The Secure Session Service uses an online router called ‘Tor’ to allow the user to browse fast and securely online.

What does it secure? Valuable and confidential information such as IP address, your banking passwords and pin numbers, or auto-login information for payment sites such as Paypal.  This information cannot be traced by hackers as it is not stored on the computer.

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Some of the secrets revealed show Americans and the world the depth of thought that has gone on in some of the key world players.  Who knew how many countries keep nuclear weapons around the world, that other countries are urging American that an American attack on Iran is “necessary”, and many more…..

Whilst it is scintillating to hear world secrets exposed, it broaches the wider question of how this information was leaked (from the US State Department), and how it could better have been protected.

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