Last week’s news about unauthorized password resets in the SingPass system (see the story here) reinforced the main cautions around passwords. Jacqueline Poh, Managing Director of Singapore’s Infocomm Development Authority recommended that all individuals use strong complex passwords with a variety of characters, including letters and numbers. The IDA went on to recommend other security best practices, including clearing browser caches after use, and changing passwords on a regular basis.
Ohanae software helps protect passwords against compromise. Ohanae users may select long passwords with upper case letters, lower case letters, numbers, and special characters and can be easily changed on a regular basis. Furthermore, Ohanae generates unique passwords for each site or application. Since Ohanae generates these passwords on use, they are never stored on any device, and users are spared the challenge of remembering many complex passwords. Finally, Ohanae implements browser cache and history clearing on laptop and desktop devices.
Ohanae’s Cloud Privacy Protection offering provides password security, but also provides secure encryption of files on device, in transit, and in the cloud as well as secure file sharing. This three-fold offering provides strong protection of both data and logins in the cloud, and is available now for Macintosh, Windows, Android and iOS.
Monday, June 9, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Ohanae supports Reset The Net
On June 5, 2014, individuals and organizations around the world will rally to support Fight For Freedom’s “Reset the Net” initiative. This effort suggests that users adopt tools that provide end-to-end encryption as one mechanism to counter mass surveillance efforts by government agencies.
Government entities like the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) cast a wide net in their surveillance efforts. As country and world citizens, we all benefit from the legitimate success of these agencies — when they counter criminal or terrorist elements that intend harm to us. However, it’s important to find the right tradeoff between privacy and protection — a challenging question that the framers of US Constitution wrestled with over 200 years ago when writing the Fourth Amendment. Fight for Freedom advocates end-to-end encryption as a mechanism to counter passive, widespread, un-targeted surveillance and preserve personal privacy, while allowing government agencies to continue the targeted surveillance of specific individuals or organizations that pose a threat to their citizens.
But, government agencies are not the only entities in the unprotected seas of the internet. Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev was identified Monday as the leader of a vast group of internet criminals that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers, leading to over $100 million in identified losses to date.
A recent United States federal lawsuit against a popular cloud and email provider asserted that email sent through the cloud provider’s servers had been scanned and indexed in order to provide targeted ads. Indeed, the privacy policies of all the major cloud providers usually contain language that allows the provider to “use” data uploaded to their services to generate derivative services.
The end-to-end encryption recommendations of the Fight for Freedom’s Reset the Net are important because they help individuals and companies ensure that their data is ONLY used for approved purposes. It helps us set a fair and reasonable bar for the tradeoff between privacy and legitimately beneficial services (in the case of government agencies and service providers). And it protects us without compromise for dangerous, criminal elements that inhabit the Internet in abundance.
Ohanae is proud to support the Reset the Net initiative with Ohanae's cloud privacy protection software. Our software provides end-to-end encryption for data at rest locally, during transmission to cloud storage, and at rest in the cloud. It prevents unauthorized use by ANYONE except the owner at all points. Ohanae also provides secure file sharing for similar protection when you need to collaborate with others, and secure password management to protect against damaging account compromises.
Ohanae software is free for the first device, and available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OS. Through referral bonuses, up to five complimentary years of premium service may be easily earned. Please navigate to http://www.ohanae.com to learn more about Ohanae and get started today!
Government entities like the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) cast a wide net in their surveillance efforts. As country and world citizens, we all benefit from the legitimate success of these agencies — when they counter criminal or terrorist elements that intend harm to us. However, it’s important to find the right tradeoff between privacy and protection — a challenging question that the framers of US Constitution wrestled with over 200 years ago when writing the Fourth Amendment. Fight for Freedom advocates end-to-end encryption as a mechanism to counter passive, widespread, un-targeted surveillance and preserve personal privacy, while allowing government agencies to continue the targeted surveillance of specific individuals or organizations that pose a threat to their citizens.
But, government agencies are not the only entities in the unprotected seas of the internet. Russian hacker Evgeniy Bogachev was identified Monday as the leader of a vast group of internet criminals that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers, leading to over $100 million in identified losses to date.
A recent United States federal lawsuit against a popular cloud and email provider asserted that email sent through the cloud provider’s servers had been scanned and indexed in order to provide targeted ads. Indeed, the privacy policies of all the major cloud providers usually contain language that allows the provider to “use” data uploaded to their services to generate derivative services.
The end-to-end encryption recommendations of the Fight for Freedom’s Reset the Net are important because they help individuals and companies ensure that their data is ONLY used for approved purposes. It helps us set a fair and reasonable bar for the tradeoff between privacy and legitimately beneficial services (in the case of government agencies and service providers). And it protects us without compromise for dangerous, criminal elements that inhabit the Internet in abundance.
Ohanae is proud to support the Reset the Net initiative with Ohanae's cloud privacy protection software. Our software provides end-to-end encryption for data at rest locally, during transmission to cloud storage, and at rest in the cloud. It prevents unauthorized use by ANYONE except the owner at all points. Ohanae also provides secure file sharing for similar protection when you need to collaborate with others, and secure password management to protect against damaging account compromises.
Ohanae software is free for the first device, and available on iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac OS. Through referral bonuses, up to five complimentary years of premium service may be easily earned. Please navigate to http://www.ohanae.com to learn more about Ohanae and get started today!
Sunday, June 1, 2014
TrueCrypt - What Now?
TrueCrypt, a package that supported on-the-fly encryption of file data through encrypted virtual disks, partitions, and entire file systems, was discontinued by its anonymous development team on May 28, 2014.
TrueCrypt served a definite need in the market place allowing sophisticated security-minded users to encrypt data locally. By moving TrueCrypt containers onto cloud providers like Dropbox and Box, TrueCrypt’s protective capabilities could be extended to the cloud. Although the anonymous fashion in which it was developed prevented standard certification that applies for most commercially developed software, a crowd-sourced effort to audit the software was in progress, and the encryption package had a public history of successful mitigation of attacks by sophisticated law enforcement agencies.
With its announcement, the TrueCrypt Foundation has suggested that equivalent filesystem encryption capabilities may be found natively in the operating systems for Windows (BitLocker) and MacOS (FileVault). However, these solutions do not fully replace the on-the-fly type encryption that TrueCrypt provided for users storing data off their local system, in the cloud.
For storage in the cloud, users can take advantage of Cloud Privacy Protection offerings. Ohanae Inc. is proud to offer previous TrueCrypt users an integrated solution for local storage and cloud based storage, with keys that are controlled (generated and used locally) by the end user. The Ohanae solution provides security for data at rest locally, in transit to cloud providers, and at rest in the cloud.
Migration from TrueCrypt to Ohanae is simple — with drag and drop or copy/paste functionality to move files from TrueCrypt containers into Ohanae Secure Drives. Ohanae pricing is attractive — with free use for single device users, and special referral bonuses to gain premium support for up to five years.
For further information, and to start securing your data locally and in the cloud with Ohanae, please refer to http://www.ohanae.com. For information on Ohanae’s referral program, please see http://www.ohanae.com/referral.
TrueCrypt served a definite need in the market place allowing sophisticated security-minded users to encrypt data locally. By moving TrueCrypt containers onto cloud providers like Dropbox and Box, TrueCrypt’s protective capabilities could be extended to the cloud. Although the anonymous fashion in which it was developed prevented standard certification that applies for most commercially developed software, a crowd-sourced effort to audit the software was in progress, and the encryption package had a public history of successful mitigation of attacks by sophisticated law enforcement agencies.
With its announcement, the TrueCrypt Foundation has suggested that equivalent filesystem encryption capabilities may be found natively in the operating systems for Windows (BitLocker) and MacOS (FileVault). However, these solutions do not fully replace the on-the-fly type encryption that TrueCrypt provided for users storing data off their local system, in the cloud.
For storage in the cloud, users can take advantage of Cloud Privacy Protection offerings. Ohanae Inc. is proud to offer previous TrueCrypt users an integrated solution for local storage and cloud based storage, with keys that are controlled (generated and used locally) by the end user. The Ohanae solution provides security for data at rest locally, in transit to cloud providers, and at rest in the cloud.
Migration from TrueCrypt to Ohanae is simple — with drag and drop or copy/paste functionality to move files from TrueCrypt containers into Ohanae Secure Drives. Ohanae pricing is attractive — with free use for single device users, and special referral bonuses to gain premium support for up to five years.
For further information, and to start securing your data locally and in the cloud with Ohanae, please refer to http://www.ohanae.com. For information on Ohanae’s referral program, please see http://www.ohanae.com/referral.
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