Full disk encryption is expected to be the top security technology to be adopted this year. Take a moment to think about the information that is present on your personal computer, i.e. Photos, passwords, emails, Important documents from work or Financial data and trade secrets. Many of us from the Security Industry obviously have enough confidential and important data regarding our work, source codes, or researches stored in our laptops or systems.
What if your computer is stolen or seized by any Law enforcement agency at the Airport? Best example to explain the situation is as follows: We all know Guardian journalist 'Glenn Greenwald', who has written a series of stories in July 2013 revealing the NSA's secret surveillance programs, leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. In August 2013, The partner of the Guardian journalist 'Glenn Greenwald', was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at the Airport under Terrorism Act 2000. He was held for nine hours by the officials and they confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. At similar situation, one can physically steal data or install spyware on devices without your knowledge and here only Full hard drive encryption plays an important role in the overall security of your data. The Kali Linux is an advanced open source operating system for penetration testing or hacking, includes a variety of security/hacking tools. In a recent update, The Offensive Security Developer Team behind the Kali Linux has introduced a new security feature called "Emergency self-destruction of LUKS" to their full-disk encryption with cryptsetup utility. If you have an encrypted partition with LVM and LUKS on the Kali Linux, it requires a password at boot time to allow the OS to boot and decrypt your drive, in case your laptop is stolen.
Read more: http://thehackernews.com/2014/01/Kali-linux-Self-Destruct-nuke-password.html
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