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• Data Breach Costs: Canadian Government Pays $751,750 For Data Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  The Canadian federal government paid out $751,750 to approximately 120,000 people who were affected by a data breach on September 2003, when six computers were stolen.  The computers contained personal information but were not protected via drive encryption software . Six years for resolution.  That must be some ...
  4 hours ago

• Disk Encryption Software: Mossad Hacks Syrian Government Laptop

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  According to Der Spiegel , Israels intelligence service planted a Trojan horse on the laptop computer of a Syrian government official.  This act ultimately led to the 2007 bombing of the Al Kibar complex (supposedly a nuclear reactor).  One way to have prevented this would have been the use of full disk encryption ...
  2 days ago

• Protecting your privacy when using search engines

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 144
  Sounds like a useful tool in this world of massive data collection by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and many others. The release: A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches IMAGE: A new system preserves the right to privacy in Internet searches. Click here ...
  4 days ago

• TLS negotiation flaw published

  
  CGISecurity - Website and Application Security News — Authority: 113
  Steve Dispensa and Marsh Ray have published a paper describing a weakness in the TLS negotiation process. This is the same attack discussed on the IETF TLS list. From the whitepaper "Transport Layer Security (TLS, RFC 5246 and previous, including SSL v3 and previous) is subject to a number of serious ...
  4 days ago

• Serious SSL Renegotiation Problem

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 119
  This just in from Ben Lawrie : For the last 6 weeks or so, a bunch of us have been working on a really serious issue in SSL. In short, a man-in-the-middle can use SSL renegotiation to inject an arbitrary prefix into any SSL session, undetected by either end. But wait, there’s more.. To make matters even ...
  4 days ago

• Hard Drive Encryption: Board Gais 4 Laptop Theft Security Guy Responsible For Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Databreaches.net has kept up with the Board Gáis laptop theft fiasco from June, and links to a report revealing that the person "responsible" for the breach "had specific responsibility for ensuring the protection of data."  If youll recall, one of the four computers did not use laptop encryption software like ...
  4 days ago

• Halfway To Fair Elections

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 442
  Maryland is the first state to implement a voting system that allows users to verify their votes , and also to allow auditors to ensure that all of the votes went to the right candidates, while still preserving anonymity. In other words, about as cryptographically perfect a voting system as possible. That’s an ...
  5 days ago

• Why Ill probably never use Logbook of the World

  
  Darin's Log — Authority: 103
  The title topic comes up here and there, and Im often asked about it on the air, so I thought Id take the opportunity to detail, once and for all, why I have zero interest in ARRLs Logbook of the World. To be fair, it does what it does and based on the number of users, it does it reasonably well - you install their ...
  5 days ago

• Amazon EC2 cloud computing for password/crypto cracking

  
  CGISecurity - Website and Application Security News — Authority: 113
  There is a rather lengthy set of posts on using cloud based computing services as ideal venues for crypto and password cracking. Link: http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/cracking-passwords-in-cloud.html Link: http://news.electricalchemy.net/2009/10/password-cracking-in-cloud-part-5.html
  5 days ago

• Boeing delivers upgrades for US Air Force ICBM security system

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 142
  The Boeing Company today announced that it has delivered upgraded cryptography devices to Northrop Grumman Corporation and the U.S. Air Force for the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) system. The devices provide additional communications security between the missile systems launch control centers and launch ...
  5 days ago

• WATTech – Quantum Computing

  
  WATBlog.com - Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India — Authority: 557
  In my school days, I was quite fascinated with physics as a whole. What started off with an explanation of heat, light, apples falling from trees expanded to an understanding of atoms, electrons, and subatomic particles. Even for a lot of “geeky” school going students, the term “quantum” was not unknown. From ...
  6 days ago

• Zero-knowledge password management in JavaScript

  
  The Endeavour — Authority: 425
  The most recent guest on Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators podcast was Marco Barulli. Barulli discusses Clipperz , a zero-knowledge password management application. The software encrypts passwords (or arbitrary text) using client-side JavaScript. Your data is encrypted on your computer and the encrypted ...
  1 week ago

• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 497
  In his introduction to Bloomsbury’s striking new edition of Tales of Mystery and Imagination Neil Gaiman says: Poe’s stories – even his humorous tales, even his detective stories – are populated by amnesiacs and obsessives, by people doomed to remember what they desire only to forget, and are told be ...
  1 week ago

• Drive Encryption Software: UK Companies Report 356 Data Breaches In Less Than One Year

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  A Freedom of Information request has revealed that UK CIOs have reported 356 instances of data breaches since November 2008.  Of these, 222 instances (60%) would have been fully preventable via the use of drive encryption like AlertBoot. The 222 instances I mentioned include the loss or theft of hardware (memory ...
  1 week ago

• Browse Anonymously on Your Android Phone With Tor

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Browse Anonymously on Your Android Phone With Tor : Via OStatic. Many people use the open source application Tor on the desktop for anonymous browsing sessions. Thanks to a grant from the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge and the team behind The Guardian Project, now Android mobile phone owners can use ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  "Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives : Via Schneier on Security . Earlier this month, Joanna Rutkowska implemented the "evil maid" attack against TrueCrypt. The same kind of attack should work against any whole-disk encryption, including PGP Disk and BitLocker. Basically, the attack works like this: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wireless Encryption: TJX Lessons Not Learned At TimeWarner?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Remember how TJX had that massive breach?  The one thats considered to be the largest to date?  Well, it looks like not all major companies learned the lesson.  The issue came down to the data encryption used to protect wireless data transfers.  Well, Time Warner has been caught using the same encryption ...
  2 weeks ago

• Backup Data Encryption: Zurich Financial Services Loses Tape In South Africa

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Zurich Financial Services, a major financial services group that specializes in Life and General Insurance, has admitted to losing a tape that was used for backup purposes, a loss that could potentially affect customers on three continents.  It hasnt been revealed whether the tape drive encryption was used to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cost Of Computer Security Breaches: How About $100,000 For Not Using Antivirus Software?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Well, this is kind of surprising.  Ive heard of how companies are penalized for not having used data encryption on computers with sensitive data, but this is probably the first time Ive heard of an instance where the same was done for not using antivirus software. Commonwealth Financial Network Fined For Data ...
  2 weeks ago

• Attackers could steal crypto keys from mobile devices

  
  Recent White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - ZDNet — Authority: 453
  Security researchers have discovered a way to steal cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt communications and authenticate users on mobile devices. Security researchers have discovered a way to steal cryptographic keys that are used to encrypt communications and authenticate users on mobile devices by measuring ...
  2 weeks ago

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