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Steghide. OpenPuff - Steganography & Watermarking. Home > Software > OpenPuff Steganography OpenPuff is a professional steganography tool, with unique features you won't find among any other free or commercial software. OpenPuff is 100% free and suitable for highly sensitive data covert transmission. Thanks so much to the huge amount of time that people worldwide invested in creating these nice videos about OpenPuff.

A lot of work has been published about OpenPuff since the beginning of the project, back to version 1.01 released on December 2004. Some of the following papers describe new brilliant research in the steganography/steganalysis field, that will be surely included in the upcoming versions of OpenPuff. FOR EXPERTS (difficulty: advanced) PAPERS & ARTICLES (difficulty: advanced) THESIS (difficulty: advanced) LECTURES (difficulty: medium) WEB REVIEWS (difficulty: easy) How to protect your PC from Prism surveillance. Thursday afternoon, a bombshell dropped: Two leading reports claimed that the U.S. government has been spying on emails, searches, Skype calls, and other electronic communications used by Americans for the last several years, via a program known as PRISM.

According to the reports, the Web’s largest names—AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Skype, PalTalk, Yahoo, and YouTube—participated, perhaps unwittingly. (Dropbox will reportedly be added as well.) The report claims that the National Security Agency had “direct access” to servers owned by those companies. Most, if not all, of those companies have denied participating in PRISM, although it’s unclear whether they were unaware of the NSA’s spying, or simply turned a blind eye. According to The Guardian and The Washington Post , the data covered included: “email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats, file transfers, social networking details, and more.”

So what can you do? Avoid using popular Web services. Two-factor authentication with the YubiKey. OclHashcat - advanced password recovery. ▶ How to encrypt (almost) anything. It's all too easy to neglect data security, especially for a small business. While bigger organizations have IT departments, service contracts, and enterprise hardware, smaller companies frequently rely on consumer software, which lacks the same sort of always-on security functionality. But that doesn’t mean that your data is unimportant, or that it has to be at risk.

Encryption is a great way to keep valuable data safe—whether you’re transmitting it over the Internet, backing it up on a server, or just carrying it through airport security on your laptop. Encrypting your data makes it completely unreadable to anyone but you or its intended recipient. Best of all, much of the software used in offices and on personal computers already has encryption functionality built in. You just need to know where to find it. But first, a word about passwords Any discussion about encryption needs to start with a different topic: password strength. Encrypt your entire hard drive 1. 2. ▶ How to encrypt (almost) anything.