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• Laptop Encryption Software: Using PS3s To Crack Encryption Passwords

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  Federal officers are employing Playstation 3 game consoles to crack the password to digital files protected with encryption software . To Catch A Predator - ICE C3 The operation is being spearheaded by the ICE, more specifically the C3 division/branch: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes ...
  4 days ago

• Review: Lamentation by Ken Scholes

  
  MentatJack — Authority: 412
  Lamentation is Ken Scholes ‘ first novel. It’s the first chapter of the 5 book Psalms of Isack series expanded from the short story Of Metal Men and Scarlet Thread and Dancing with the Sunrise which appeared in the August 2006 issue of Realms of Fantasy. (be warned that that link doesn’t include the full ...
  4 days ago

• Drive Encryption Software: Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust Desktop Computers Stolen

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has found Great Yarmouth and Waveney Primary Care Trust in breach of the Data Protection Act.  The case just goes to show that its not only laptop computers that require hard disk encryption , but desktops as well. According to the Undertaking signed by the Great ...
  6 days ago

• Signing PowerShell Scripts – Automatically

  
  Huddled Masses — Authority: 496
  I write a lot of PowerShell scripts, and I work on modules a lot, including ones which I load automatically in my profile. Sometimes I forget to sign those modules before I restart my console/host, and then I get errors when they’re loaded from the profile. I wrote a script to solve this problem by automatically ...
  1 week ago

• Speed Up Caculation with eMAC and MAC in ColdFire

  
  Your Electronics Open Source - Share for life! — Authority: 129
  ColdFire integrated enhanced multiply accumulate (eMAC) unit as a fundamental function block. Many algorithms of DSP processing and cryptography heavily rely on add and multiply operations, which can be boosted with MAC and eMAC. read more
  1 week ago

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

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• C++ Software Engineer Required for Karachi

  
  pak-jobs-IT — Authority: 133
  NewSoftwares.Net is a US based shareware company looking for excellent software engineers with C / C++ (VC++, Win32, MFC) skills to come and join our organization and prove themselves by shoving back the boundaries of computer security including data protection, encryption, file system, internet and network ...
  1 week ago

• Disk Encryption Software: Mossad Hacks Syrian Government Laptop

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  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 weeks ago

• Protecting your privacy when using search engines

  
  David Kirkpatrick — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• TLS negotiation flaw published

  
  CGISecurity - Website and Application Security News — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Serious SSL Renegotiation Problem

  
  The Musings of Chris Samuel — Authority: 116
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Halfway To Fair Elections

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 443
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Ill probably never use Logbook of the World

  
  Darin's Log — Authority: 104
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Amazon EC2 cloud computing for password/crypto cracking

  
  CGISecurity - Website and Application Security News — Authority: 116
  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
  2 weeks ago

• Boeing delivers upgrades for US Air Force ICBM security system

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 440
  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 ...
  2 weeks 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zero-knowledge password management in JavaScript

  
  The Endeavour — Authority: 470
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 496
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 131
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

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