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..)

Some of the folders are multiple Gbs of uncompressable data and I am running out of space on the drives when I am storing the same files 2 times. What I need in is a following script 5. Disconnect net ...
How-To Geek

Proton Drive CLI makes automated, encrypted cloud backups simple

Backups are one of those jobs everyone knows they should do, but almost nobody does consistently. You mean to copy your files ...
BleepingComputer

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 ...