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Working as a system administrator requires a lot of memory power with all the servers that I am managing at work. Not to say the huge amount of passwords that go with it. And I must admit that my memory is not to be trusted (hey, even Einstein once suggested not to trust your memory!) with these credentials that if compromised or forgotten, will mean death to my career.

IronKey Inc. has announced that its line of encrypted USB storage keys is now available for all major Linux operating systems (OSes). IronKey devices come in 1GB, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB models, offer military-grade hardware encryption, and do not require driver installation, says the company.

Buona sera. Your not-so-humble host is a bit wound up today. First of all, it's my mother's birthday. She has been gone for almost five years, but every once in a while, I still get a twinge. The old girl had a good run of 81 years, though. That was the somber news.

Almost everyone has a thumb drive. Most people carry some pretty personal information around on those little devices as well. So when you lose your thumb drive, sometimes you can be pretty S.O.L.. Even if you don’t lose it and you simply leave it around, your information can be easily compromised.

A group of researchers from the University of Colorado and University of Washington have published a research paper profiling the Tor anonymity network. They ran exit and entry nodes for a number of days, and tracked exit traffic as well as the source IP addresses of end user client machines connecting to the Tor network.

How many USB keys are lost or stolen every year?  Lots. How many of those keys have confidential corporate information on them?  Lots. How many of those data keys are encrypted?  Not many. USB Data Keys..  A great little gadget that allows users to store up to 320GBs of data in their pocket that’s accessible simply by plugging it into a USB slot on a PC.

The source code to the Cold Boot attack has been released by the Princeton researchers. These tools were used in their February paper to attack software encryption. Essentially they shut down an encrypted computer, froze the memory with a can of freeze spray, rebooted from a USB flash drive and recovered the AES encryption keys, allowing them to decrypt the computer’s disk drive.

Sure, regular flash drives are cheap and handy, but what if someone should pass you the plans for the Deathstar? The average thumb drive has zero protection, so if you misplace it or it’s stolen, any personal information you had on those files has been compromised. That’s where Ironkey comes in.

Here’s a 4GB secret-code protected thumb drive that comes with a hardware encryption chip and can survive from any attacks both virtually and physically. The Ironkey features Fast 30MBPS Read, 20MBPS Write with AES CBC-Mode Encryption. It has an electronic shielded encryption chip that even a scanning electron microscope can’t get inside.

Here’s a 4GB secret-code protected thumb drive that comes with a hardware encryption chip and can survive from any attacks both virtually and physically. The Ironkey features Fast 30MBPS Read, 20MBPS Write with AES CBC-Mode Encryption. It has an electronic shielded encryption chip that even a scanning electron microscope can’t get inside.