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Majority of U.S. Organizations Choose Encryption for Compliance Goals

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New Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Symantec finds 84 percent of U.S. organizations either deploying encryption or in the process of doing so. Most U.S. organizations are currently encrypting data or are in the process of doing so, and the No. 1 driver for this is compliance.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 17, 2010

Groundbreaking Quantum Cryptography Enhances Complex Data Security

Quantum cryptography has been around since the 1980's but up until now only very small packets of information have been able to be encrypted at one time. Now a breakthrough that identifies the angle and rotation of photon particles is taking this technology to the next level.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 10, 2010

Exploring Firesheep's Role in WiFi Security Risks and Protection

An open-source Firefox extension called Firesheep has shined a spotlight on just how insecure it is to use unprotected WiFi networks. It's widely known that unprotected WiFi networks make sensitive data readily available for anyone with the technical skill necessary to find it, as demonstrated by Google's four-year Street View WiFi data gathering odyssey.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 02, 2010

EFF Lawsuit Against DOJ Agencies for Internet Surveillance Transparency

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) reports that it has filed lawsuits against three agencies of the US Department of Justice demanding the release of documents justifying the need for stronger internet surveillance measures.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 01, 2010

The Birth of Public-Key Cryptography by GCHQ's Pioneering Scientists

Public-key cryptography is widely used to secure online transactions. The math behind the technology was devised by U.K. Government Communications Headquarters scientists in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 27, 2010

GCHQ's Role In Advancing Public Key Cryptography For Online Security

Public key cryptography is widely used to secure online transactions. The maths behind the technology was invented by UK Government Communications Headquarters scientists in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 26, 2010

Explore MysteryTwister C3: Diverse Crypto Challenges for All Levels

On the new MysteryTwister C3 web site, crypto fans can practice cracking various encryption mechanisms. Jointly created by the German universities of Siegen, Bochum and Duisburg-Essen, the site currently offers 27 challenges organised into four levels of difficulty.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 18, 2010

SECNAP Shows Email Encryption Techniques At Hacker Halted Conference

At the 2010 Hacker Halted Conference in Miami on October 13, 2010, SECNAP Network Security will demonstrate the ease with which cyber sniffers, eavesdroppers and hackers can intercept email messages, despite widespread user trust that email messages are private and secure.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 14, 2010

PCI Council Guidance on Point-to-Point Encryption Maturity Concerns

The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) issued its first guidance document outlining the point-to-point encryption market, warning merchants of the possibility of vendor lock-in and calling current implementations too immature to properly evaluate.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 13, 2010

Protecting Communication Security From Government Backdoors

I was drawn to security in the early 90s during the crypto battle against the U.S. government, which was trying to force companies to adopt broken encryption with built in backdoors, like the failed Clipper Chip. Fortunately, the crypto wars were won by the side of reason, not least because of activists hoarding crypto technology in offshore locations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 07, 2010

Discover 4 Essential Open Source Disk Encryption Tools for Security

As usual, the Free/Open Source software world provides the best security utilities for Windows, and for Linux and Mac as well. Eric Geier rounds up four encryption utilities for both local and network storage.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Oct 05, 2010

Exploring Encryption Trends And The Government Backdoor Controversy

Encryption is hot. Perhaps that's because its been around so long it's no longer seen as a black art. Or perhaps security issues have grown so prevalent, everyone wants some sort of encryption as a truly secure way of stopping the pain of those problems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 29, 2010

Gareth Williams: The Enigmatic Code-Breaker and His Unresolved Fate

On Friday, in the Bethel Methodist Chapel in Angelsey, the funeral was held of Gareth Williams. In life, he was a mathematician and an encryption specialist so highly regarded that he was seconded from GCHQ in Cheltenham to work at MI6 in London.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 26, 2010

Cost-Effective Methods For Implementing Two Factor Authentication

Typically, implementing two factor authentication means buying tokens or smart cards for all of your users. This can be expensive (from what I have seen $50/user is typical in smaller deployments) and it is only manageable for users with whom you have an existing relationship (employees, in some cases customers).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 21, 2010

ASP.Net Cryptographic Flaws Impacting Online Banking Security

Flaws in the way web applications handle encrypted session cookies might leave online banking accounts open to attack. The security risk stems from a cryptographic weakness in web applications developed using Microsoft's ASP.Net framework.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 14, 2010

Norwegian Researchers Launch Laser Attack on Quantum Key Exchange

Norwegian computer scientists have perfected a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems that allows them to eavesdrop on communications without revealing their presence.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Sep 08, 2010

Examining User Hardware Impact on Quantum Cryptography Security

Quantum cryptography is absolutely unbreakable, as it relies on the laws of physics to rat out eavesdroppers. But like other encryption methods, it is sometimes only as good as the users and their hardware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 31, 2010

Enhancing Data Security With Tokenization Best Practices

With Visa releasing its tokenization best practices guide earlier this summer, security professionals and encryption vendors have debated the strengths and weaknesses of the guide. As one of the most debated topics in encryption-land, tokenization still has a long way to go before it achieves any kind of true standardization of best practices.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 30, 2010

OpenSSH 5.6: Major Security Updates And Authentication Enhancements

OpenSSH 5.6 has just been released. It will be available from the mirrors listed at https://www.openssh.org/ shortly. OpenSSH is a 100% complete SSH protocol version 1.3, 1.5 and 2.0 implementation and includes sftp client and server support.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 23, 2010

Effective SSL Break Techniques by Ivan Ristic at OWASP Sweden

In this video from the OWASP AppSec Research conference in Sweden, security researcher Ivan Ristic of Qualys discusses practical methods for breaking SSL.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 18, 2010

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