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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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With the advent of Windows Vista, Microsoft offered BitLocker Drive Encryption designed to protect customer information by encrypting machines in order to guarantee that the data was safe especially in scenarios involving stolen computers. BitLocker grew with the addition of Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista, and Wind... |
24 April 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Security researchers Erik Tews and Martin Beck have succeeded in partially cracking the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption, which until now had been considered safe. The two hackers will demonstrate their feat at the upcoming PacSec security conference in Tokyo, Japan.WPA is a protocol that has been widely adopt... |
7 November 2008
06:46 GMT |
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These days there aren’t enough ways to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can choose from a great deal of software solutions to do this but, as always, the free ones might prove to be the best. So, let’s see what you can do to be as stealth as possible during the hours (days?) of staying online.How... |
17 October 2008
06:01 GMT |
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The researchers from the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL), have made a breakthrough in the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology by boosting the secure key bit rates to over 1 Mbit/sec. This will make QKD networks 100-times faster than before as well as allow multiple network nodes.Cryptography is base... |
9 October 2008
12:01 GMT |
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Monday marked a dark day for all organizations and institutions that rely on the MIFARE Classic RFID smart cards, as two separately released research papers describe how to hack and clone such cards in a matter of minutes. These cards are used across the globe for access to transit systems and institutions, both priv... |
7 October 2008
08:06 GMT |
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Researchers from the Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a solution for securing wireless communication between the modern medical implants and maintenance/monitoring devices. The solution encrypts the communication using a 64-bit key, which is generated by using each patient's heartbeat. Modern ... |
5 September 2008
10:41 GMT |
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There's nothing fancier these days than virtualization and enterprise-class security, but, if you manage to stuff them both into the same product, you can lay back and cash in the millions. Sandisk thinks the same and announced that it has teamed up with security specialist Check Point to build a secure virtual ... |
25 April 2008
08:15 GMT |
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All security experts out there advise people to keep their laptops and computers protected and, when attending meetings and conferences, to avoid leaving their notebooks unprotected. Unfortunately, it seems like these experts are ignoring even their own advice as most of them left their computers open at Infosec Euro... |
23 April 2008
09:15 GMT |
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The HMRC data loss is surely a case which should be mentioned in the IT security books because at that time, there were no less than 25 million victims who saw their details lost in the unknown. However, it's sad to see more and more similar cases although the HMRC case obviously underlined the need for more and... |
22 April 2008
17:31 GMT |
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Loosing laptops containing vital information is more than a trend in the past years, it's growing to be a real fashion. Lately, the most reported cases had medical files and the computers they were on being front and center, but some bank blueprints and some government information being misplaced can't have... |
28 February 2008
16:46 GMT |
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War is not much of a healthy passion for anybody, or at least I wouldn't like it to be so for our own safety. However, history is, and a group of enthusiasts set up a code-breaking contests that aimed at cracking one of the encryption keys used to hide World War 2 messages.A German cryptographer managed to beat ... |
30 January 2008
11:31 GMT |
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A survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche LLP and the Ponemon Institute LLC revealed that 85 percent of the security professionals in North America discovered a data breach, targeting personally identifiable information inside their company in the last year. Moreover, 63 percent of the respondents confirmed they have ... |
14 December 2007
15:31 GMT |
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Nec has unveiled a new series of laptops that include built-in hardware security in order to prevent illegal access on the hard disk drive. These hardware features are included in the Versa M370, P570 and S970 models, and are comprised of an advanced, hardware-based security chip - the TPM (Trusted Platform Module), ... |
14 December 2007
11:37 GMT |
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Apricorn has releaser their Aegis Vault portable storage suite. What strikes most is the very name of the product and the manufacturer has managed to make a somehow redundant statement in terms of security when joining Aegis (the Greek equivalent for protection) and the Vault. In some respects, there is no overstatem... |
4 December 2007
10:55 GMT |
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Germany is that kind of country which aims to promote some laws that would allow the authorities to install some pieces of software on users' computers in order to monitor their activity and find incriminatory evidence for legal disputes. But it seems like some applications installed on the systems might block t... |
23 November 2007
03:24 GMT |
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Yesterday's confirmed UK data loss which put the information of about 25 million Britons at risk attracts more and more comments from the security vendors from all over the world which obviously fight for better security for digital material. After Sophos and McAfee, the first two companies which came out to tal... |
22 November 2007
02:47 GMT |
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A web-based encrypted email provider was required to offer no less than 12 CDs containing information about three registered members, Ryan Singel of Wired wrote today. Hushmail, one of the numerous email services on the web, aims to lure consumers by offering encryption features and numerous other security functions ... |
16 November 2007
14:21 GMT |
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I know you wanted this, the Ubuntu team also knew and they've implemented it in the new version of Ubuntu, Gutsy Gibbon. Unfortunately, it's only available in the text mode installer, but that's why this guide is here, to help you install a fully encrypted Ubuntu OS on your computer. This process is co... |
12 October 2007
06:18 GMT |
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When it comes to sending e-mails, probably one of the most important things is making sure that the content is secure. Sure, some users sending friendly e-mails regarding non-important things can afford not to encrypt their e-mails, but when it comes to companies, one needs to make sure data does not leak; otherwise,... |
5 October 2007
05:56 GMT |
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The best way to protect data transfers between client and server is the SSL/SSH protocol. Unfortunately, this protocol doesn`t protect the data stored in the database. SSL is an on-the-wire protocol. Once an attacker gains access to your database directly (bypassing the webserver), the stored sensitive data may be ex... |
27 September 2007
10:20 GMT |
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I already figured out that a lot of people don't care much about security. Sometimes, IT managers fail to encrypt some info - it's not their data anyway, so they don't care. But what the Toyota people did is pretty nasty, since they show they couldn't care less about their products. They went and ... |
21 September 2007
05:46 GMT |
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This is just like the Dark Ages! You can't send an important message anymore, because you run the risk of having it intercepted and sensitive info being leaked. Remember those movies where the King wanted to send a message to some other royalty, but before it left the castle it was encrypted by some weird old mo... |
17 September 2007
09:39 GMT |
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PGP, which specializes in enterprise data protection, announced yesterday a variety of solutions that enable organizations to communicate in a secure way on the "wild wild web". PGP Universal Gateway Email now features a whole new range of tools - dubbed "Secure Delivery" - that help security, which provide the user... |
13 September 2007
03:12 GMT |
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Encryption is really an issue these days. If you want your data to be protected, then you need to encrypt it with a "heavy" code. Systems are often hacked into and databases are being breached, so your last stand is your encryption system. It helps a lot - if it's really good, and the hacker will steal the coded... |
12 September 2007
08:28 GMT |
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Time is money, that's what they say. If you can increase the speed of your business, you can make more money. And how can you speed things up? Use the Internet, of course! Many web analysts predict that the Net will be the business environment of the future. And I tend to agree, with things evolving at this rate... |
10 September 2007
04:28 GMT |
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Seagate Technology announced the launch of a new line of products designed to meet the demands for both increased storage capacities and better data protection. In order to satisfy those demands, the hard disk drive manufacturing company launched a hard drive intended for use in laptops and notebooks with a capacity ... |
10 September 2007
03:01 GMT |
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BitLocker Drive Encryption is a data protection feature Microsoft included by default into the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista and into the upcoming Windows Server 2008, formerly codenamed Longhorn, scheduled for availability on February 28, 2008. Essentially, BitLocker will encrypt all the data on ... |
20 August 2007
05:00 GMT |
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BitLocker Drive Encryption is a new technology introduced into the high-end editions of Microsoft's latest operating system. Windows Vista Enterprise, the platform accessible exclusively to the company's Software Assurance customers via volume licensing, and Windows Vista Ultimate are the two examples of Vi... |
6 July 2007
08:57 GMT |
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Sooner or later. Because this is how things work in the encryption business. Take the DVD protection for example. It wasn't very complex so hackers managed to circumvent it really fast. And then Blu-Rays and HD-DVDs rushed in and with them came AACS. This one was pretty hard to crack but it too had a flaw relate... |
22 June 2007
06:21 GMT |
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Each second, vast amounts of valuable information - from your personal credit card numbers to state and military secrets - are targeted by individual hackers and crackers, or worse, by criminal organizations, but now, new technologies are emerging, based on the surprising laws of quantum physics that govern the atom... |
18 June 2007
09:39 GMT |
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Jabber is an "en vogue" chat (Instant Messaging) technology, perfect for small and medium businesses. One of the cool things about Jabber - except for the fact that it's free and open source - is that it can be used on multiple platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows, BSD). Popular chat clients like Pidgin, Psi or Adium... |
13 June 2007
10:49 GMT |
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Mathematics is not so easy, once you get past the "exact change" problem and the yearly taxes. Here's a mathematical record that might sound simple to achieve, until you try it.An international team of scientists have performed a computational "Herculean Task" and finally found the prime factors of a well-known... |
21 May 2007
10:51 GMT |
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The electronics industry is confronted with an increasing number of thefts and is continuously developing new technologies to prevent this. Theft accounts for as much as $400 million in annual losses for the manufacturers.A new technology is hoped to do just that with the help of a small chip installed on each DVD.... |
10 May 2007
08:41 GMT |
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For all of you who are using a notebook, you must have heard of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), the wireless network security standard. It has been ratified as a standard in 1999, and the technology behind it uses a stream cipher RC4 for confidentiality and the CRC-32 checksum for integrity. This standard has always ... |
5 April 2007
10:32 GMT |
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The fact that BitLocker, the data protection technology introduced in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate and in Windows Server Longhorn can be bypassed is not an item of novelty. The issue has been around since the testing phase of the operating system, but Microsoft failed to find a necessary remedy. Still, the s... |
26 March 2007
08:55 GMT |
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Do you care about your private data? If not, you should! Have you heard about encryption? If not, you must! To be sure you understand why I am interrogating you like a sleuth, I will cut to the chase and explain you in detail. Some data stored on your computer should not be accessed by other persons than you. A simpl... |
5 March 2007
02:36 GMT |
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One of the most important features the modern Linux distributions have inherited from Unix is the powerful command line. However, using the command line can be a little difficult for all Linux users, not just for the beginners. Fortunately, many developers have created user-friendly front-ends applications to common ... |
2 March 2007
08:11 GMT |
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