Tag: Encryption

August 21, 2018

Full-time privacy has become essential in an increasingly connected life. At the workplace or at home, we are currently generating a tremendous amount of data. Discover below a quick guide on how to encrypt your entire digital footprint and keep […]

August 14, 2018

A new variant of the KeyPass ransomware has been gaining traction in August and is using new techniques like manual control to customize its encryption process, researchers said Monday. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab who posted about the trojan said that […]

June 26, 2018

The Wi-Fi Alliance officially launches its latest protocol, which offers new capabilities for personal, enterprise, and IoT wireless networks. Wi-Fi connections soon will become easier to secure with a newly available security protocol from the Wi-Fi Alliance. WPA3 is the […]

June 14, 2018

Apple said Wednesday it was strengthening encryption on its iPhones to thwart police efforts to unlock handsets without legitimate authorization. The move by Apple, the latest in an ongoing clash with law enforcement, comes amid reports of growing use of […]

March 20, 2018

‘Crumple Zones’ in crypto mechanisms can make it possible – but astronomically expensive – to access encrypted data, say researchers from Boston University and Portland State University. Security experts long have maintained that providing any kind of backdoor access to […]

February 23, 2018

GitHub this week permanently disabled a series of weak cryptographic standards across its software development platform in an attempt to better protect users. As of Feb. 22, 2018, the TLSv1/TLSv1.1 standard is no longer used on HTTPS connections to GitHub. […]

February 14, 2018

The times when all that our TV sets could do was show us ‘regular’ TV stations are now over. These days, such ‘old-school’ television sets are increasingly being replaced with their ‘smart’ successors, which we can use for streaming video […]

October 23, 2017

The number of websites that protect traffic using HTTPS has increased considerably in the past months, according to data shared by Google last week. The tech giant says 64% of websites loaded via Chrome on Android are now protected by […]

September 28, 2017

Businesses buckle down on encryption as it becomes table stakes for securing data in the cloud. Encryption has become less of a nice-to-have and more of a must-have as companies determine how to best protect their cloud-based data. Cloud providers […]

September 7, 2017

The Dragonfly hacking group is back – or should we say it probably never went away – and is still interested in penetrating the networks of European and US companies in the energy sector. Even worse, their efforts have been […]

August 18, 2017

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) together with the growing number of data breaches are the most pressing reasons why small and medium businesses are implementing data protection technologies – including encryption. However, with limited time and the market flooded by various products, it […]

August 11, 2017

How can you be sure the “secure” USB drive you’re using is really secure and the data you store on it can’t be extracted? That’s exactly the question Google’s security researchers Ellie Bursztein, Jean-Michel Picod, and Rémi Audebert addressed in […]

August 11, 2017

Encryption can be the answer to many data security issues faced by small and medium businesses. Not only can it protect sensitive information from unauthorized use and minimize the risks arising from data breaches, implementing this technology can also represent another step […]

August 10, 2017

At the end of 2016, there was a major attack against San Francisco’s Municipal Transportation Agency. The attack was done using Mamba ransomware. This ransomware uses a legitimate utility called DiskCryptor for full disk encryption. This month, we noted that […]

August 7, 2017

On July 17, IBM unveiled its z14 mainframe server, which combines the traditional mainframe hardware with new capabilities in areas such as cloud, cognitive, analytics, application management, blockchain, machine learning and more. Most importantly, z14 includes enhanced security features — namely, […]

June 2, 2017

Cryptographic security risks are amplified in DevOps settings, where compromises in development or test environments can spread to production systems and applications. This is a particular issue for financial services organizations, which have been early adopters of DevOps technology. According […]

June 2, 2017

Access manager service OneLogin has announced that it has suffered a massive data breach that affects all users whose data was stored on the US servers, making for a rather nasty situation. “Our review has shown that a threat actor […]

May 10, 2017

While some law enforcement agencies would like nothing more than for encryption to vanish from the world, especially for messaging apps, WhatsApp has silently added another layer of security to its systems. More specifically, WhatsApp has added encryption for messages […]

April 18, 2017

Trivial matter? The average user has around 26 to 55 applications downloaded to his smartphone device. Most likely, you have entertainment and gaming apps, a banking app, a few social media apps, fitness apps, and eCommerce apps to shop at […]

April 11, 2017

If you’ve been paying attention lately, you’ve likely noticed that more of your everyday websites are going HTTPS by default: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and even your favorite search engine. This is a good development. For years, critics have derided default, […]