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ElcomSoft, a company specializing in password recovery and information security technologies and algorithms, has confirmed an impressive feat - their Distributed Password Recovery tool is the first to recover passwords for Numbers, Pages and Keynote apps.
Today ElcomSoft confirmed that the company could at the momen... |
9 February 2012
10:03 GMT |
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In a move that may very well be a bit too radical, even for this constantly hacked world, the FCC has proposed something that could make Boxee and its peers reach an impasse.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has proposed that all cable channels, even the most basic ones, be encrypted.
The supposed purpo... |
9 February 2012
09:51 GMT |
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Ramona Fricosu, the woman ordered by a court to decrypt the contents of her laptop until February 21, revealed through the voice of her lawyer that she might have forgotten the password to the encrypted drive. According to Wired, the defendant hasn’t taken this position in court, but her attorney states that p... |
7 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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In a case that may set a controversial precedent, a woman accused of financial fraud was ordered by a court to provide the prosecution incriminatory data stored on her encrypted laptop computer.
According to Wired, Colorado U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn ruled that the Fifth Amendement is “not implicated... |
24 January 2012
06:19 GMT |
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Cybercriminals came up with a new way to avoid email filters. They are relying on password-protected document files they attach to email messages with the purpose of encrypting them in order to make them more legitimate looking.
Symantec researchers found this latest technique utilized in a limited number of targete... |
29 December 2011
10:35 GMT |
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Since they believe that DNS security could be even better than it currently is, OpenDNS released a tool that will protect the Internet connection between the Internet Service Provider (ISP) and the customer’s computer.
Just as SSL turns HTTP web traffic into more secure traffic, DNSCrypt turns regular DNS tra... |
7 December 2011
08:52 GMT |
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Early adopters looking to upgrade their existing copy of Windows to Windows Developer Preview will need to make sure that all encrypted drives are decrypted ahead of starting the process, Microsoft advises.
The Redmond company stresses that this is valid even for testers leveraging BitLocker Drive Encryption and ... |
10 October 2011
08:31 GMT |
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The Indian government is trying to find a solution that would allow its intelligence agencies to monitor Facebook and Twitter encrypted traffic.The Indian regulators are considering asking telecom providers to put the encryption keys for their secure services in an escrow account for use in surveillance operations wh... |
11 August 2011
12:33 GMT |
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Security researchers claim that GPRS traffic can easily be intercepted because most mobile operators currently employ weak encryption, if any at all.The research was presented this week at the Chaos Communication Camp 2011, a yearly hacker gathering near Berlin, by Karsten Nohl, chief scientist at Security Research L... |
11 August 2011
12:25 GMT |
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Millions of Windows Live Hotmail users worldwide have already opted to add extra security to their email communication by enabling full-session HTTPS encryption (SSL) for their accounts. In fact, in excess of two million people leveraged the opt-in Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic protocol protection for Hotmail t... |
8 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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Generally speaking, securing sensitive data means password protection. This is also how Protect Me! guards your files, but it places them in an encrypted container and offers extremely easy access to the content. The application is free of charge and requires installation on the system, but only to allow you to crea... |
30 June 2011
11:12 GMT |
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Microsoft might be best known for its Windows operating system, but the company also deals in hardware, to some extent, like a certain desktop peripheral kit that has only now surfaced.
Microsoft is not as famous for its hardware as it is for the software it creates, and which runs on the majority of the world�... |
4 June 2011
05:56 GMT |
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While there are more than a few flash drives with security features, few can really claim to have the highest level of data protection, and Kanguru's Defender family is now under tests to see if they fit those high standards.Kanguru might not release new flash drives as often as other companies do, but it does ... |
27 May 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Security researchers from Microsoft have come across a new version of the Alureon malware which uses sophisticated obfuscation techniques in order to evade antivirus detection and analysis.Alureon is a family of trojans that intercept Internet traffic with the purpose of stealing login credentials, credit card data a... |
16 May 2011
14:43 GMT |
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Security experts claim the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) SafeHouse, the newspaper's WikiLeaks alternative, does not meet the level of security expected of a whistleblower website.WSJ SafeHouse's slogan is "securely share information with The Wall Street Journal," but well known computer security expert and hack... |
6 May 2011
11:34 GMT |
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Sony has issued a clarification saying that while exposed PlayStation Network (PSN) account passwords were not encrypted, they were hashed using a cryptographic function.The clarification comes after many news outlets reported that passwords were stored in plain text form, a practice known for being insecure.The conf... |
3 May 2011
13:52 GMT |
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It would appear that advancements in the field of data security never cease, with Toshiba being, this once, the one responsible for the existence of a new and improved collection of self-encrypting hard disk drives.Toshiba decided to take the industry-standard Trusted Computing Group “Opal” Specification... |
13 April 2011
05:07 GMT |
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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), successor of the Soviet-era KGB, calls Gmail, Hotmail, and Skype encrypted communications a national security threat, prompting fears that they might get banned."Different software is being distributed allowing the encryption of traffic: that is services including Gmail, Ho... |
9 April 2011
04:15 GMT |
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Data security is a growing concern on today's market, especially on the business, enterprise and government fronts, so Green House figured it might capitalize on this with its newest flash drives.If anything can be said about Green House, it is that its has been quite active recently, especially as far as flash... |
6 April 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Android users interested in having their data securely encrypted on the mobile phone they are carrying around all day long have now a new software available for them to do just that, WhisperCore, a beta release from Whisper Systems. The new mobile application can easily prove a great option for all those who are con... |
16 March 2011
13:51 GMT |
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Keeping one's personal data safe at all times is an extremely important task, especially when said pieces of information have quite a sensitive nature, and this is exactly where the new External CipherChain from Addonics comes into play.So, what we're talking about here is a full disk hardware encryption pr... |
10 March 2011
03:54 GMT |
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The latest versions of Google Chrome come with a feature that makes SSL connections faster by simplifying the handshake between browsers and Web servers.Dubbed False Start, the technique was developed at Google and is described as an optional behavior of TLS implementations.By default, for a SSL/TLS connection to be ... |
6 December 2010
14:53 GMT |
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With its upcoming BDXL writers ready to cover the optical storage market, Buffalo went ahead and also prepared a new collection of flash drives, one that is known as RUF2-HSC-T.Buffalo went for a broader approach in regards to capacity and performance when it designed its new line of flash drives.Many companies have... |
4 November 2010
05:52 GMT |
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GitHub, one of the largest code hosting repositories and collaborative development platforms in the world, started to enforce HTTPS, as the default and only method of accessing the website.HTTPS (HTTP Secure) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and the SSL/TLS protocol and is used to encrypt communica... |
3 November 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Keep a secure archive of all your passwords in one place. DAFFTIN Password Keeper offers a simple method to protect and access all your passwords anytime and never forget them, no matter how complex they are.The information era has brought us closer through various social websites, email and other means to communica... |
25 October 2010
15:41 GMT |
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After brainstorming for the last few days, Facebook engineers have come up with an encryption-based solution that would prevent third-party applications from inadvertently leaking user IDs (UIDs) via the HTTP Referrer headers.UIDs are unique identifiers used on the Facebook platform to provide a personalized experien... |
22 October 2010
04:24 GMT |
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Another small feature has made its way into Google Chrome, one that should give security minded folks and conspiracy theory' adepts everywhere some peace of mind. The sync data - bookmarks, AutoFill, etc. - can now be stored encrypted on the Google servers, ensuring that you and you alone are able to see them. N... |
14 October 2010
10:46 GMT |
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The Indian government is set on getting full access to any communications that happen in the country and are now starting to go after any company that doesn't provide it access, with Google and Skype on top of the list.The government has given RIM, maker of BlackBerry phones, a two months reprieve to straighten ... |
31 August 2010
10:11 GMT |
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MXI Security has once again drawn upon its expertise in manufacturing flash-based storage solutions and has brought for a number of secure USB flash drives, the Stealth M-Series and Stealth MXP Bio, which have hardware encryption and FIPS 140-2 Level 3 certification. Flash drive popularity has definitely been keeping... |
10 August 2010
06:12 GMT |
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The telecommunications providers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will begin blocking RIM-dependant data services for its BlackBerry customers beginning October 11. The move comes after the UAE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) issued an order in this respect yesterday.TRA's beef with BlackBerry stems from its... |
2 August 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Kanguru has been manufacturing secure storage solutions for quite a while, and it always makes a point of making sure that whatever encryption algorithms is implements are vulnerability-free. Now, instead of releasing some new government-grade device with a myriad of security features, the company decided it was time... |
20 July 2010
10:47 GMT |
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AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithms have become the favored choice for manufacturers of any sort of storage solution, especially external and portable ones. As such, it makes sense that hardware makers would look for the most efficient and capable chips and circuits when creating their respective devices. ... |
17 July 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Cyber-crime activity has reached alarming levels these days and despite antivirus developers’ intense activity and obvious progress in perfecting anti-malware technologies, the ultimate line of defense is still the actual user. It is up to us to choose the best protection antivirus or keep sensitive informatio... |
9 July 2010
10:49 GMT |
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About a month ago Google introduced a great new feature for the more security conscious, encrypted search. Visitors to https://www.google.com would have their entire session encrypted making it almost impossible to intercept by a third-party. It was a great win for privacy but a very particular problem arose, schools... |
26 June 2010
04:41 GMT |
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One of many tech-notes posted by Apple in light of the iOS 4 launch details the particularities of Data Protection, one of many key additions inside the new operating system for iPhones and iPod touches. Data Protection is supported only by the iPhone 3GS, and the 32GB and 64GB versions of the iPod touch third-genera... |
22 June 2010
10:44 GMT |
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Last week, we wrote about the problems some schools were having with the new encrypted Google Search. Because any traffic flowing through it couldn’t be snooped on, students were using it to bypass the schools’ content filtering systems. However, the answer wasn’t simply blocking the https://www.goo... |
15 June 2010
11:57 GMT |
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Google has extended SSL coverage to its biggest service yet, the Web Search. The new encrypted search offers significant privacy protection at virtually no cost. The HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) is a protocol that makes use of SSL/TLS to encrypt HTTP communications. Even though HTTPS dates back to the ... |
24 May 2010
10:48 GMT |
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Google had a painful announcement to make last night, revealing that it had been mistakenly collecting personal data with its Street View cars for the past three years. Along with the admission, Google also revealed that it planned to start offering encrypted search starting last week, following a similar move for Gm... |
15 May 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Portable data-storage and digital-encryption specialist iStorage has just revealed that its product lineup includes a portable storage device capable of guaranteeing the integrity and confidentiality of all stored data. Known as the diskGenie portable hard drive, the unit leverages both AES 256-bit hardware encryptio... |
1 February 2010
08:28 GMT |
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The mobile industry is moving towards newer technology standards when it comes to limiting the risks of attacks on wireless networks, and the 3G service, already widely adopted all around the world, was seen as a solution when compared to the GSM technology. Since the latter was proven as quite vulnerable to attacks ... |
16 January 2010
05:09 GMT |
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Last week, a critical security flaw was detected in a number of flash drives. While the drives were supposedly designed with data encryption and password protection, some of them had a critical vulnerability. This flaw enabled hackers to manipulate the password protection so as to no longer restrict access, instantly... |
14 January 2010
04:55 GMT |
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Certain encrypted flash drives manufactured by Sandisk have been found to possess a security flaw that can leave devices vulnerable to data breaches. The flaw concerns the front end software, which requires a password input. It was discovered that, after the password was first introduced and the drive allowed access ... |
12 January 2010
05:42 GMT |
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"We have seen significant growth in the SSD market in recent months. Verbatim is seizing this opportunity and has expanded its SSD ExpressCard range to include a hardware encrypted version: The SSD Secure ExpressCard. Our aim is to address the rapidly growing demand for secure portable storage solutions head-on with ... |
19 November 2009
08:16 GMT |
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System administrators and computer security experts keep reminding users that they should use strong passwords and change them regularly. Unfortunately, strong passwords are usually complicated and hard to remember, therefore prone to be forgotten or misused. Even if you do manage to remember one or two complicated p... |
22 October 2009
09:09 GMT |
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If you ever kept important files on a USB drive, then you certainly thought about the prospect of misplacing that flash disk and exposing the contents of those files to unwanted people. Even when sending data over the Internet, no one can guarantee that they won't be hijacked during the passage from server to cl... |
11 September 2009
05:59 GMT |
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Another item on the list of free backup solutions is Toucan, which sports more functionality besides the file backup and restore procedures. The application's expanded functionality can help you synchronize data between folders and even encrypt and store it on your computer.Toucan's ease of use is enforced ... |
29 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Cobian has been with us for quite a while and has served many users responsibly. A first glance over the interface is all you need to realize that the software does not bring any elaborated menus, just plain simple options to allow you to carry out basic operations. Nonetheless, Cobian has a few aces up its sleeve an... |
28 August 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Apple's iPhone might be one of the hottest handsets available on the market at the moment, yet it seems that it might also turn to be one of the most hackable. According to an iPhone developer familiar with the technology, the current data encryption system that is present on Apple's product is extremely ea... |
24 July 2009
08:28 GMT |
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Despite the tendency among antivirus software companies to release next year's protection suite a year before (2010 editions of major developers are currently in the making) , Lavasoft preserves the chronological evolution of its applications and keeps up with the current twelvemonth period, releasing 2009 progr... |
7 July 2009
02:34 GMT |
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With all the data-endangering threats floating all over the Internet, keeping copies of your files in a safe place from where you can recover it at any time in case something goes seriously wrong seems like a great idea. Although backing up files may look like a job for professional software, there are plenty solutio... |
17 June 2009
11:34 GMT |
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