Ars Technica

Any clever way to "encrypt" password in a shell script

I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to Windows ...
Ars Technica

Logoff Script Help needed (Encrypted Backups of Outlook, My Docs..)

I am starting to encrypt all of the backups to the tape. Currently I am using AxCrypt (free) and a logoff batch script to<BR>1. Connect to network share<BR>2. Encrypt & Compress all files in a ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware gang encrypts VMware ESXi servers with Python script

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...
MCPmag

Encrypting Data with PowerShell Cmdlets

Encrypting data in today's day and age is pretty important if you want to keep things secret without the threat of someone else viewing things such as passwords, personably identifiable information or ...
Linux Journal

Paranoid Penguin - Limitations of shc, a Shell Encryption Utility

shc is a popular tool for protecting shell scripts that contain sensitive information such as passwords. Its popularity was driven partly by auditors' concern over passwords in scripts. shc encrypts ...