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• Laptop Encryption Software Vulnerable To Evil Maid Attacks (Again)

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Researchers at Fraunhofer Secure Information Technology (SIT) have shown that laptop encryption programs could be even more at risk to evil maid attacks than previously thought, although this particular example is relegated to people using Microsofts BitLocker. Fraunhofer SIT Research Findings What TPM and ...
  2 days ago

• Hard Drive Encryption Software On Textron Financial Missing Drive?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Textron Inc. has filed a letter with the Attorney General of New Hampshire, alerting his office of an employee and customer information data breach that occurred in October.  The use of disk encryption software like AlertBoot was not mentioned. According to the letter, fifty-four NH residents were affected.  The ...
  5 days ago

• Full Disk Encryption: School Gives Boy USB Stick With Sensitive Info

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Well, heres a case where drive encryption like AlertBoot wouldnt have made a difference, although things may be a little different with file encryption . UK School Gives Student USB Stick With Sensitive Information Carlos McSweeney, a 10-year-old boy with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), was ...
  6 days ago

• SecureDoc 4.9 disk encryptor adds Snow Leopard support

  
  PC Mike - Tech News and Reviews — Authority: 461
  WinMagic has released an update to its disk encryption software, SecureDoc v4.9 for Mac OS X. The software features always-on 256-bit AES full-disk encryption that integrates with Windows Active Directory, allowing it to be deployed across a mixed-OS enterprise network…. Read the original: SecureDoc 4.9 disk ...
  6 days ago

• Passwords Are Here To Stay. But, Youre Doing It Wrong

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  When it comes to hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot, passwords are like butter on bread: you just have to have it.  And, as most data security professionals will tell you, the more complicated it is, the better the password. Crazy Complex Passwords Dont Necessarily Work Complex Password?  Get ...
  1 week ago

• Data Security Increases Needed By New Zealand Civil Service

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  New Zealands privacy commissioner has released her annual report and has highlighted the need for better data security across government departments, possibly including the use of hard disk encryption software.  Among her findings is that 95% of government agencies allowed the use of external, portable storage ...
  1 week ago

• Disk Encryption Software: UK Navy Investigates USB Stick Found In Garage

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  As noted yesterday, " full disk encryption works."  That was the conclusion from the US Navys CIO.  It seems this lesson is yet to be learned by their counterparts in the British Navy. The Royal Navy has sent investigators to Belfast because a USB stick with "restricted information on naval maneuvers and ...
  1 week ago

• The Reality of Evil Maids

  
  Securology — Authority: 109
  There have been many attacks on whole disk encryption recently: Cold Boot attacks in which keys hang around in memory a lot longer than many thought, demonstrating how information flow may be more important to watch than many acknowledge. Stoned Boot attacks in which a rootkit is loaded into memory as part of ...
  1 week ago

• Drive Encryption Software Protects Navy, Teaches Lessons

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  The Navys CIO has uploaded a case that could have been one of the worst breaches theyve ever had.  Thankfully enough, it turned out not to be so dire in the end, with eight individuals possibly being affected.  But, even if the numbers had been higher, data encryption software similar to AlertBoot had been used to ...
  1 week ago

• Data Encryption Software: Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia Loses Laptop Computer

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia announced the theft of a laptop computer.  From the article, its quite apparent that the device was not protected with laptop encryption software like AlertBoot software; however, some form of data security was possibly used. Employee Car Break-In The breach occurred on ...
  1 week ago

• Full disk encryption for your computer

  
  JDMaBelleverlasting — Authority: 124
  How safe are you with regards to your computer data? Do you feel secure with all of your files? Do you want to know where you can encrypt your records so that no one can intrude with your personal computer files? These high technology days, there are much software offered in the market but few are reliable. And ...
  1 week ago

• Full Disk Encryption: AZ Attorney General Also Investigating Health Net

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Health Nets loss of a hard drive that was not protected with drive encryption is really beginning to pay dividends.  The wrong kind of dividends.  Arizonas Attorney General has now announced that he will investigate whether Health Net has broken any state laws due to the breach. Second Attorney General ...
  2 weeks ago

• Data Encryption Software Not Used? How Does 5 Years Of Credit Protection Suit You?

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  If youll recall, BlueCross BlueShield announced a data breach last month, when an employee lost a laptop with the information of all doctors in their network (apparently, something like 90% of all doctors nationwide).  While BCBS uses drive encryption software to secure data, it was in vain: the employee had ...
  2 weeks ago

• DiskCryptor: Free Open Source Alternative to DriveCrypt

  
  I Love Free Software — Authority: 138
  DiskCryptor is a free and open source alternative to popular disk encryption program DriveCrypt. DiskCryptor is a free encryption program that can encrypt all disk partitions, including system partition. This helps in securing your data from theft and unauthorized access. DiskCryptor has a very good encrypytion ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hard Disk Encryption: Health Net Revises Breach Figures Upwards - 1.5 Million Affected

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Well, I guess sometimes you just have to go with your gut feeling.  Yesterday, I had made a comment on the Health Net data breach.  The breach occurred because a portable drive was lost (and, drive encryption wasnt used to protect the contents).  The figures of affected patients has jumped from 446,000 to 1.5 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Health Net healthcare data breach affects1.5 million

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 409
  Image via WikipediaAnother security breach related to healthcare organization which resulted in loss of patient data shows that healtcare organizations poor state of baseline security and simply... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• Drive Encryption: Health Net Loses Info On Half-Million Connecticut Residents

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Health Net has announced the loss of a portable disk drive which has resulted in a data breach of 446,000 people.  Data security programs, such as full disk encryption from AlertBoot, were not used to secure the personal information.  This happened six months ago, and, boy, is Connecticuts Attorney General ...
  3 weeks ago

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

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hard Drive Encryption: Army Corps Of Engineers Data Breach With Missing External Drive - 60,000 Affected

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  The Corps of Engineers have lost an external hard drive.  The use of disk encryption software like AlertBoot was not mentioned (the use of encryption lowers the risk of a data breach).  The incident took place in Dallas, Texas, where the Corpss Southwestern Division is headquartered. 60,000 Soldiers and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Data Encryption For Photocopiers? Why Youre At Risk With A Photocopier

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 130
  Photocopiers--those machines that spit out, again and again, duplicate documents to your hearts desire, and only limited by the reams of paper you have in your possession--can lead to a data security risk, in more ways than one.  One could argue that hard drive encryption could be employed to gain protection from ...
  3 weeks ago

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