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• Hard Disk Encryption Not On Laptop: Follow Up On Connecticut Data Breach

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  A little over two years ago, a laptop computer belonging to the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services (DRS) was stolen.  It did not use hard drive encryption software like AlertBoot to protect its contents and led to the breach of personal information for 106,000 people. An investigation was started since ...
  3 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 ...
  5 days ago

• Forget malware infections, hackers want to ransom your files and devices

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  Filed under: Security , News These days, cybercriminals seem to have one thing on their mind: your money. Gone are the days where a virus would simply infect your .exe files and make your system hard - or damn near impossible - to use. It’s bad enough that the bulk of the malware and malicious web scripting ...
  5 days ago

• Data Encryption Software Part Of Trojan. Ransom Notes Are Not

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  According to CNet, Trojan.Ramvicrype encrypts files, but will not leave a ransom note (instances where "ransomware" hijacks your computer, using the same data encryption technology offered by legitimate companies like AlertBoot, have been around for some time).  Fixes are available for download at Symantec, as ...
  6 days ago

• File Security: Junior Staffer Leaks US House Ethics Doc Via P2P

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  The US Ethics Committee has announced that a recent document leak was caused by junior staffer who installed file-sharing software on his personal computer.  This statement actually raises questions.  It is also testament to how data security requires a holistic approach that includes data loss prevention and data ...
  1 week ago

• Drive Encryption: Missing Tape Affects UK Farmers Tied To RPA

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  If youre a farmer in the UK, and have ever taken a payment from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA), consider yourself a victim of a data breach.  The RPA has lost computer tapes with information on farmers who have ever received a EU subsidy payment.  The tapes were not protected with encryption , as required. 39 ...
  1 week ago

• Disk Encryption Software: Ashford and St Peters Loses USB Drives, Pledges Better Handling

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Three missing USB memory drives have prompted the Ashford and St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Trust to sign an undertaking with the Information Commissioners Office.  The missing devices, which did not use full disk encryption , held cancer patient data. The Details The data included full treatment and diagnosis of ...
  1 week ago

• Data Encryption Software: CalOptima Loses Unencrypted CDs

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  CalOptima in Orange County has announced the loss of several CDs containing personal information of members.  It will affect approximately 68,000 people.  The use of data encryption software like AlertBoot would have been extremely useful, on a number of fronts. What Was Lost The CDs contained "names, home ...
  2 weeks ago

• Giveaway: mblVault – Password Protect & Encrypt Files! – 50 Free Copies

  
  BerryReview.com — Authority: 638
  Mblware let me know about their latest BlackBerry app mblVault that sounds kind of cool. It lets you encrypt files and filenames on your BlackBerry so they are unreadable by anybody else. I know you could always use the built in BlackBerry encryption but that is usually more cumbersome and I don’t want to encrypt ...
  2 weeks ago

• Laptop Encryption Software: Those Thieves ARE Checking Your Computer For Information

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Dont think that you need hard drive encryption for your laptop?  Are you one of those who believe that computer thieves are interested in the hardware, that they could not care about the contents? Thats probably what a lot of people think.  And, that includes the police, who constantly are quoted in the media as ...
  3 weeks ago

• Drive Encryption Software: VA Dept Of Education Flashdrive Missing

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  The Virginia Department of Education has announced the loss of a 2-gigabyte flashdrive that contained the personal information of 103,000 former adult education students.  The device did not use disk encryption software  like AlertBoot to protect its contents. The personal information, according to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Data Encryption Worthless With Employees Like These: 1/3 Of UK Emp Toss Sensitive Data In Bins

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  Encryption is not a panacea for all of your data ills, as Ive already noted time and again.  But, sometimes it can fail even for those "ills" it was designed for.  Foremost amongst those instances is when people dont follow instructions, such as not keeping their usernames and passwords in the vicinity of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Laptop Encryption Software Not Used, NHS Traces Stolen Laptops

  
  AlertBoot Endpoint Security — Authority: 129
  A Lancanshire NHS trust has announced that theyve recovered four laptops that were stolen from different locations, under different circumstances.  The trust ought to be congratulated and, yet, I feel conflicted because I know that, without the use of laptop encryption software like AlertBoot, they seriously risked ...
  4 weeks ago

• Download File Encryption Application For Nokia 5800 XM

  
  Cell Phone Offers — Authority: 165
  Here is a file encryption nokia 5800xm cell phone application , the application is Best Cryto by Smartphoneware. Usd it you can add paddword to your personal files or folders which you will not share for people, protect your personal photo, video, sounds and other data.
  7 weeks ago

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