US intelligence and law enforcement agencies are fighting for a back door in encryption tools that would allow them to spy on and monitor “encrypted” information. The concept is a bad idea on multiple levels and will end up causing […]
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Dropbox has taken some heat at times over security (or lack thereof) issues. As Dropbox seeks to win more business customers it needs to do more to provide the kind of security and data protection companies need–especially companies in regulated
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TalkTalk–a London-based phone and broadband company–has been breached by hackers. The attack could possibly have compromised sensitive data on all of its 4 million customers. A TalkTalk spokesperson called it a “significant and sustained” attack. I know it’s almost the
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Breaches big and small have been in the news, from small organizations losing banking files to global groups like Sony losing seemingly everything to hackers. But with the recent Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack that was revealed recently, with
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A team of researchers has discovered a new encryption flaw called Logjam, a bug that allows an attacker to weaken the encrypted connection between a user and a website or mail server. It is similar to FREAK, another bug that
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Leading technology companies such as Google, Apple, and a few others, along with a bunch of cryptologists have requested President Obama to protect privacy rights and avoid any backdoor entry for police access to encrypted smartphone data. Through a signed
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At one point you could defend a kingdom by creating a moat–a small man-made river–around the castle. A moat offers little–if any–protection today. Attacks evolve over time, so defense must also adapt and evolve to remain effective. The same is true
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A new ransomware campaign is upping the ante. Pacman can compromise a PC with a single click and encrypt the data. The only way to decrypt your data and get it back is to pay the ransom–and Pacman only gives
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In a session today at SXSW Yahoo showed it still has the ability to innovate with the introduction of new initiatives set to make its email platform more secure and simplify its email service. Yahoo believes that the ideas behind
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Once again the tech world is abuzz with the news of a security flaw affecting Apple and Google mobile devices. FREAK, which stands for Factoring attack on RSA-EXPORT Keys, is the result of an old US government policy requiring US
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