HTML Encryption (Master Resale Rights)
2009-09-23 15:43:00 Your Encryption Site is a rare and unique website that allows you to encrypt your HTML code!
File and Data Encryption Software
2009-09-20 22:57:00 Almost everybody who work with computer and store their work and data in the hard disk has personal files in their computer. What I mean by personal data is the files that belong to an individual and sometime are not meant to be shared. The personal or secret data could be anything from single file, ...
Privatefirewall
2009-08-09 11:06:00 Click to enlarge Privatefirewall 6.1 Privatefirewall is an integrated desktop firewall and multi-layer intrusion prevention software delivers signature-less, zero-hour protection from known or new spyware, viruses, hacking techniques and other intrusions on Windows desktops and servers. Privatefirewall is comprised of several distinct protection layers including desktop firewall, port manager, URL filtering, process monitor, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Privatefirewall", url: "http://www.plentyofsoft.com/ut-ility/privatefirewall-4/" });
Why Isnt My Encryption Encrypting
2009-06-23 10:15:00 Its as true in life as it is in clientserver programming the only secret that cant be compromised is the one you never revealed But sometimes its unavoidable If you must send a secret down to the client you can encrypt it The most common form of encryption is symmetric encryption where the same key is used to both encrypt and decrypt MostRead More...
Firefox Password Recovery
2009-06-07 11:25:00 Click to enlarge Firefox Password Recovery 1.0 Using Firefox Password Recovery, you can easily see the actual passwords that are stored by Firefox Web Browser, and regain access to all the saved login information (including the website, username and password), and even decrypt passwords protected with a Master Password. It’s helpful if you ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Firefox Password Recovery", url: "http://www.plentyofsoft.com/ut-ility/firefox-password-recovery--2/" });
"My software is secure, I use encryption!"
2009-04-17 02:00:00 “My software is secure, I use encryption!” How many times have we, software security practitioners, heard this when engaging with software development teams?
GStarICAD drawing encryption
2009-03-23 09:57:00 Hi, I am using GStarICAD recently, an AutoCAD like CAD software. I forget the password when I use the drawing encryption. Is it possible to get my drawing back? Thank you for your help. Plotting problem with GStarICAD
GStarICAD - Drawing Encryption and Password Retrieval
2009-03-23 09:57:00 Hi, I am using GStarICAD recently, an AutoCAD like CAD software. I forget the password when I use the drawing encryption. Is it possible to get my drawing back? Thank you for your help. Plotting problem with GStarICAD
Is Quantum Encryption Really Unbreakable?
2009-02-02 02:02:00 A recent experiment/research article (http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract-/1367-2630/10/12/123006) proved that removing a single quantum from a coherent beam can be done without destroying the coherent state and will only lower its amplitude. Because destruction of coherency was what was to keep quantum e
What's the Best Encryption: GSM, TETRA, or DECT?
2009-01-16 04:40:00 please can someone help me out? which has the better encryption method?? GSM, TETRA or DECT?? please can someone help me out here.. how can you compare those encryption methods??
Credit Card With LCD and Keypad Ensures Encryption in Every Transaction
2008-11-18 14:34:00 From Newlaunches.com: Visa Europe has announced a newly designed credit card, complete with a keypad and digital number display. The card is of the usual size and features a credit card number and magnetic strip for use with conventional card readers; it does not have a security co
researchers crack Internet McEliece encryption system
2008-11-02 21:38:00 Dr. Tanja Lange, Her research interests are in the area of public key cryptography, mainly in elliptic and hyperelliptic curve cryptography.Eindhoven researchers crack Internet security of the futureResearchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for the security of Internet traffic in the age of the quantum computer - the predicted superpowerful computer of the future.The attack succeeded this month by means of a large number of linked computers throughout the world, says TU/e professor Tanja Lange. Earlier this year she and her PhD student Christiane Peters, together with visiting professor Daniel Bernstein (University of Illinois, Chicago), had discovered a way to speed up attacks against the 30-year-old McEliece cryptosystem. The researchers wrote software that would decrypt a McEliece ciphertext in just 1 week on a cluster of 200 computers.The software was run ...
Unbreakable encryption
2008-10-16 18:13:00 From The Engineer: What is claimed to be the first commercial communication network using unbreakable encryption has been demonstrated in Vienna by a team from Bristol University and 40 other European institutions. The technology is based on quantum cryptography — a techn
BlackBerry Technology Now in Russia: Encryption Delays Ended
2008-09-08 20:45:00 BlackBerry technology has been delayed in Russia but that?s all over now. Read all about the several thousand BlackBerry smart phones that are expected to go on sale via Russia?s two leading mobile operators. Gadgets Innovation International Lifestyle News Products Technology
BlackBerry Technology Now in Russia: Encryption Delays Ended
2008-09-08 20:45:00 BlackBerry technology has been delayed in Russia but that?s all over now. Read all about the several thousand BlackBerry smart phones that are expected to go on sale via Russia?s two leading mobile operators. Gadgets Innovation International Lifestyle News Products Technology
VTC - Understanding Encryption and Decryption Tutorials
2008-08-20 18:06:00 IntroductionIntroduction & Course Outline (01:32)T Data Encryption Basics Explaining Encryption (04:44)History of Encryption (04:35)Encryption Applications (03:15)Encryption Terms (06:18)Algorithms & Keys Algorithms (04:37)Keys (03:21)Secret Key Encryption (04:08)Public Key Encryption (04:57)Combining Secret & Public Key Methods (03:21)File Encryption - Stored Datan Understanding File Encryption (04:22)Using Windows EFS (03:08)Demonstration: Windows EFS (06:20)Using TrueCrypt (07:58) Using Iron Key (04:12)Network Encryption - Transmitted DataUnderstanding Network Encryption (03:40)Link & Session Encryption (04:47)Network Encryption Technologies (05:37)Using EncryptionEncrypting Email (04:43)Using File & Network Encryption (06:06)Using Digital Signatures pt. 1 (04:30)Using Digital Signatures pt. 2 (03:43)http://rapidshare.com/fi-les/138693759/VTC_-_Understandi-ng_Encryption.rar
VTC - Understanding Encryption and Decryption Tutorials
2008-08-20 18:06:00 IntroductionIntroduction & Course Outline (01:32)T Data Encryption Basics Explaining Encryption (04:44)History of Encryption (04:35)Encryption Applications (03:15)Encryption Terms (06:18)Algorithms & Keys Algorithms (04:37)Keys (03:21)Secret Key Encryption (04:08)Public Key Encryption (04:57)Combining Secret & Public Key Methods (03:21)File Encryption - Stored Datan Understanding File Encryption (04:22)Using Windows EFS (03:08)Demonstration: Windows EFS (06:20)Using TrueCrypt (07:58) Using Iron Key (04:12)Network Encryption - Transmitted DataUnderstanding Network Encryption (03:40)Link & Session Encryption (04:47)Network Encryption Technologies (05:37)Using EncryptionEncrypting Email (04:43)Using File & Network Encryption (06:06)Using Digital Signatures pt. 1 (04:30)Using Digital Signatures pt. 2 (03:43)http://rapidshare.com/fi-les/138693759/VTC_-_Understandi-ng_Encryption.rar
Hard Drive Encryption Vs. Hard Drive Pulverization: It?s A Matter Of Data A
2008-06-06 07:02:00 And what type of resting you?re looking for your data: eternal or not. (What a terrible play on words. Thank God I wasn?t an English major; they might rescind my diploma.) Anyhow, this may be a good time to explore some alternatives to data protection solutions like full disk encryption. The montereyherald.com has an article describing how certain businesses have decided to pulverize their computers? hard drives in order to comply with HIPAA, SarbOx, and FACTA, as well as any other federal regulations governing privacy regulations. The companies in question literally pulverize the hard drives, and generally takes them less than thirty seconds per drive to crush them. In fact, the ?pulverizers? (I like the sound of this) will bring their equipment around and ground the disks to a fine powder right in front of you. I imagine the reason would be two?fold for this: It?s a great show, I?ll bet, which helps to spread the service?s availability v...
Does AT&T Encryption Services Secure Data and Email for Businesses?
2008-06-05 12:42:00 AT&T recently announced the availability of managed security services that will apparently help business users protect their data. We want to know if the AT&T Encryption Services really works. AT&T Encryption Services is mainly focusing on the protection of information by indeed providing encryption services and management of digital signatures ?in the cloud?. There are many ...
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William Hill Deploys PGP Whole Disk Encryption to Protect Sensitive Data on
2008-06-05 10:20:00 UK betting and gaming company pursues strategic enterprise data protection PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that William Hill Organisation PLC, a leading betting and gaming company based in the United Kingdom, has implemented the PGP(R) Encryption Platform for strategic data protection on laptops and to position itself for future encryption ...
By: Gadget Mania
Disk Encryption Missing From University Records Stolen From Van
2008-06-05 07:59:00 The information on 35,000 people was stolen from a security van in the UK. The van was being used to transport computer tapes, which apparently did not employ any type of encryption, like those offered by AlertBoot. The data breach included peoples home addresses, dates of birth, and letters of correspondence, which were digitized and saved electronically. There were no bank account, insurance, or salary details saved on the stolen tapes. All parties involved in this latest medical data security breach are taking some solace in the fact that the ?information on the tape was ?stored in such a technically complicated way? that it could only be accessed with highly specialist IT equipment,? according to the birminghampost.net. One certainly hopes so. However, I personally would feel much better if the tape were recovered. Over on the other side of the pond, a bank is facing a similar problem?a data tape containing information on millions of ...
Lack Of Full Disk Encryption Affects 32,000 Canadian Farmers
2008-06-05 07:50:00 It seems just like the other day that I opined on whether companies take to full disk encryption and other data security measures only after they?ve experienced a data breach. Now, in an act of cosmic timing, the winnipegfreepress.com is reporting that the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) is encrypting computer data after they lost a laptop with information on 32,000 Canadian farmers. The laptop was stolen on March 30, but affected people were not alerted of the fact until last week. It?s at that point that farmers who were part of the CCGA became aware that their social insurance numbers, bank account numbers, and other data may have become compromised. The delay in contacting the farmers, supposedly, was due to dealing with bureaucracy and working out the logistics of sending out so many letters. According to CCGA general manager, the laptop that was stolen featured password?protection as well as biometric fingerprinting. Unfortunate...
Full Disk Encryption And Other Measures Not Implemented In Canadian Compani
2008-06-04 06:18:00 Canada?s privacy commissioner released a report on Tuesday stating that our neighbors up north are subject to inexcusable security breaches because companies won?t use some of the most basic methods of protecting personal information, like full disk encryption on laptops, according to an article at the nationalpost.com. According to Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, ?nine in 10 people whose data was compromised by a self-reported security breach were put at risk? because electronic records were not protected adequately via the use of firewalls or encryption. And, I think it?s being implied that nothing is being done to turn the tide despite the fact that 2007 could very well have been called the year of data breaches?and the problem is growing. It was also pointed out that breaches do have a financial impact on companies. The article points out that HomeSense and Winners?stores owned by TJX and also affected by the American retail giant?s breach last year?wer...
AT&T Launches Encryption Services to Help Businesses Secure E-Mail and Data
2008-06-04 00:00:00 AT&T has announced the availability of managed security services that help businesses protect their data - AT&T Encryption Services. AT&T Encryption Services is focused on the protection of information by providing encryption services and management of digital signatures ?in the cloud?. Some of the capabilities of AT&T Encryption Services include e-mail confidentiality ...
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Disk Encryption Missing From Stolen USB Drive In New Glasgow
2008-06-03 07:23:00 Police in New Glasgow were looking into the theft of a flash drive from the Pictou Country Health Authority office, according to thechronicleherald.ca. Approximately 150 clients were affected, and as of today, about two thirds of them were contacted regarding the issue. Normally, this wouldn?t be an issue since the authority uses disk encryption on their USB drives. The flash drive was stolen last Tuesday from an employee?s desk. The authority announced at that time that no information was lost because hardcopies were kept as backups, and the theft will not have an impact on service or care. Of course, this did not help assuage any concerns over how the stolen data may be used. Thankfully, the flash drive was recovered the next day, with the thief confessing that he (or she) had stolen the device and had attempted to destroy it. No word on whether the flash drive was a doomsday machine in disguise. On the other hand, supposedly these...
Do Companies Really Employ Full Disk Encryption Only After They?ve Had A Br
2008-06-03 04:45:00 The negative aspects of the digital world have begun to rear their ugly heads. It took some time, but they?re here, and in full force. Going digital has meant that everything happens at the speed of light, as one CEO had stated when this particular revolution began. The problem is, of course, that when everything happens at the speed of light, the bad stuff happens at that same exact speed: from bringing down much needed infrastructure, like your electric company (a possibility), to bilking individuals for thousands of dollars, possibly hundreds of thousands (an everyday reality). The world, being not only digital but capitalistic as well has unleashed a new breed of ?entrepreneurs? that share the opinion that there is nothing higher than the almighty dollar (rubble, yen, pound, what have you). The fact that their activities are quite criminal has not deterred these entrepreneurs. Indeed, if the authorities, local and global, cannot catch you, w...
Open Source E-Mail Encryption
2008-06-01 06:03:00 "...Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut?..." -Philip Zimmerman, Creater of PGPOf course it doesn't, it simply means you value your privacy.PGP, or more specifically OpenPGP is a great, and more importantly FREE method of securing your data and your e-mails. You don't want "The Man" reading your e-mails, and neither do I.There are many PGP and OpenPGP programs out there, but the one that is the most versatile that I have seen is called GnuPG. It comes in some form for every operating system. It comes standard with Ubuntu Linux, and there are versions for Windows an...
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RIM Blackberry / DOT India Encryption Tussle Hots...
2008-05-31 19:09:00 It seems that the rough weather is started for the very existence of Canada's patented smart phones RIM (Pearl) Blackberry in India. As we know the DOT / Government of India has already locked horns with RIM Blackberry to provide encryption keys so that the emails from Blackberry to Blackberry servers too could be deciphered by the Indian security agencies on the lines of USA Federal security agencies. India says if USA security agencies could encrypt the secured blackberry data than why could India not as India too is experiencing the terror. But Rim Blackberry says that they do not have the encryption keys, but India denies this, saying absurd. India had issued now ultimatum to Canada's coveted RIM Blackberry that either do it now or pack your bag & baggage from India and say the final good bye, there is no compromise in there name of Nation's security and no more meetings please, this is final, Do or Die! Research in Motion (RIM) can sense and is calculating the imminent abso...
By: Talk Free
Full Disk Encryption Not Used At State Street?
2008-05-30 07:47:00 State Street Corp., the global money manager based out of Boston, is alerting 45,000 customers and employees that they may be at an increased chance of identity theft. More specifically, they?re legacy customers and employees from Investors Financial Services (IBT), a firm that State Street acquired last year. IBT had retained the services of a legal support vendor prior to being acquired, and this unnamed vendor lost computer equipment?no word on what type of equipment it may be?in December of last year. The story is receiving a small amount of coverage as of this time. According to the coverage by bizjournals.com, it took State Street approximately five months to figure out the contents of stolen equipment, since the company had to ?translate largely encrypted data into a readable format and gauge the extent of the data theft.? I couldn?t find this detail anywhere else, including State Street?s own site. Initially, I thought that State...
Full Disk Encryption Employed At Sandown Health Centre After Potential Secu
2008-05-29 07:33:00 Another hospital in the UK has fallen to a data breach due to the lack of data encryption. The Isle of Wight NHS (National Health Services) has announced that they?re moving rapidly to encrypt their data, and is recommending it to all medical practices, according to the healthcarerepublic.com. I, too, would agree that full disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot are necessary in medical settings where large amounts of data are sent around via courier or other physical means. The data breach was found when a routine check was carried out on the location of a backup computer tape?and, apparently, no one could find it. The lost tape had information on 38,650 patients. However, only 11,500 patients have been contacted to alert them of the breach (what?s that all about?) The letter also mentioned that the contents of the tape were password?protected and can only be read using special software. The former is not really adequate security, and th...
Image and Video Encryption From Digital Rights Management to Secured Person
2008-05-28 15:19:00 DescriptionContrasting to classical encryption? security may not be the most important aim for an encryption system for images and videos. Depending on the typeof application? other properties (like speed or bitstream compliance after encryption) might be equally important as well. As an example? the terms ?soft encryption? or ?selective encryption? are sometimes used as opposed to classical ?hard? encryption schemes like full AES encryption in this context. Such schemes do not strive for maximum security and trade off security for computational complexity. They are designed to protect multimedia content and fulfil the security requirements for a particular multimedia application. For example? real-time encryption for an entire video stream using classical ciphers requires much computation time due to the large amounts of data involved? on the other hand many multimedia applications require security on a much lower level (e.g. TV broadcasting) or should protect their data just for a...
Encryption for PHP
2008-05-28 14:40:00 The development of the based application web very fast at this time moreover in supported the speed of technology web that was increasingly good, PHP some pemograman to web really in enjoyed at this time with the PHP entry among them no 4 worlds of the programming that in with the person was as straight ...
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Full Disk Encryption Tales: So, How Are Those Stolen SSNs Used?
2008-05-28 07:59:00 The importance of full disk encryption solutions for laptops and other digital media has been espoused a myriad of times by numerous security vendors like AlertBoot. We?ve all heard the stories regarding identity theft, and the importance of keeping Social Security Numbers safe. Then there are those unique stories that cause one?s jaws to slacken. Those unique, imaginative capers that remind me again and again why protecting data is no laughing matter. For example, SSNs could be used to build up your wealth two cents at a time. Wired.com is reporting that a man in California, Michael Largen, did exactly that by using a common procedure used by brokerages and other companies to verify accounts. Brokerages will often test the validity of a brokerage?account to checking?account link by depositing a small amount of money, usually measured in cents, into your checking account (this is usually known as an ACH setup). These small monies are known...
Learn EDB: Basic Encryption
2008-05-27 15:33:00 LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle TechnologyAn ITToolbox user recently asked a question on the EnterpriseDB discussion group, Oracle equilant UTL_I18N.STRING_TO_RAW IN ENTERPRISEDB.Basically, Sreenivas asked which functions in EnterpriseDB could be used to implement dbms_crypto, hex_to_raw, string_to_raw, etc. I believe he is using EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server which is the product that gives Oracle Compatibility. The short answer to his question is that right now, there are no compatibility functions for those. The long answer is that you can re-implement that functionality using native PG functionality.If you look at Sreenivas's message you can see how his existing code works. I posted a simple example in response which I am reposting below. The PG docs suggest that you use PGP based encryption rather than what they call raw encryption. I think it depends on exactly what you're doing, personally. Anyway, raw encryption was closer to what Sreenivas was doing so ...
Laptop Losers Hall Of Shame Shows Importance Of Hard Drive Encryption For A
2008-05-27 07:22:00 Networkworld.com has a small slideshow of the top ten worst data breaches of all time when it comes to unencrypted data. Of course, these are only known instances, as networkworld.com points out. They also point out that the data breaches could have been prevented if the laptops in question had been secured with hard drive encryption, a service that is provided by AlertBoot, among others. The number of affected people by each breach range from the 228,000 to 28.6 million, although the latter figure is way off the mean, with most breaches relegated to less than 500,000 affected per instance. Of course, that?s still a huge number. Why carry around such sensitive information? Why store all that sensitive data in a laptop? Carrying that amount of data on an everyday basis is just plain crazy. I mean, forget a laptop is involved. If someone told me that he had in his briefcase?right now, at this instance?500,000 names and SSNs print...
Disk Encryption For Lost Bank Tapes Would Have Been A Good Thing
2008-05-23 07:07:00 The loss of a backup tape from the Bank of New York Mellon is making the rounds on the internet. According to a press release by the Connecticut AG?s office, the backup tape was lost by the storage company that was in charge of keeping the tapes safe, Archive Systems, Inc., not by the bank itself. It?s one of those instances when one hopes that full disk encryption was applied to the tape. But the data on the tape was not encrypted, and this may mean that hundreds of thousands of CT residents?and possibly millions more in other states?could be affected by this loss. What?s surprising to me about this press release, though, is not the scope and size of the data breach; we?ve certainly had bigger and broader before. Rather, it?s the sense of urgency and risk that is conveyed by the AG. From the press release quoting CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp-/view.asp?Q=416000&A=2795):- I am alarmed and deeply concern...
Full Disk Encryption Could Have Saved Oklahoma Corporation Commission A Bun
2008-05-22 08:04:00 Joe Sill bought fifty computers from a government auction. His intent, according to koco.com, was to refurbish and resell them. Instead, he?s had to put a hold on those plans because he found over 5000 Social Security numbers in the computers? hard drives. If only those drives had full disk encryption on them; then, Sill would have just installed a new OS and be done with it. The Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the source of the computers, is not to blame for the data breach, though (or, perhaps, they deserver partial blame). It turns out that they don?t usually handle sensitive information, so they left the hard drives behind in the computers for the auction. So where did the SSNs come from? Apparently, the computers were used by the Oklahoma Tax Commission before being transferred to the Corporation Commission. They may both be government entities but, just like the IRS shouldn?t have access to top secret information from the CIA, ...
Hard Drive Encryption A Solution For University Of Florida Case?
2008-05-22 02:03:00 The University of Florida will be notifying patients that there was a breach of their information. According to the Triangle Business Journal, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the university stored digital photographs of patients and identifying information on a computer. The identifying information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and Medicare numbers. Such information is to be stored on university servers and never on individual computer hard drives, per school regulations; the doctor is resigning from his position for violating this policy. The storage of the information was not the cause of the information security breach, however. The breach occurred when the doctor gave away the computer to a friend. The computer had a new operating system installed in it?by the friend, not the doctor?and the Journal article states that it ?[resulted] in the permanent loss of most of the patient information.? I don?...
RIM Blackberry Encryption & India: Security v/s Privacy Concerns
2008-05-21 18:06:00 www.blackberry.com Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian wireless communication specialist firm which developed the coveted Blackberry services on its mobiles (but next to Apple's iPhone in popularity) to the world is in tussle with Government of India and DOT India with security and privacy issues relating to the emails send over the Blackberry to Blackberry mobiles worldwide. Blackberry is a patented service / smart phone devices and their mobiles / PDAs provides email facility on mobiles just like SMS / Text messaging. Everything is possible to tap on RIM Blackberry except that of emails sent over Blackberry to Blackberry. The RIM's servers are located in Canada and Hong Kong. The Blackberry-to-Blackberry emails are not being able to encrypt / intercept or are being untraceable by anybody in the world. The Indian government scare of security issues in present terror situation persists in Indian subcontinent. Various extremist groups are harnessing the technology to the full...
By: Talk Free
Full Disk Encryption Is Much More Powerful Than Password Protection
2008-05-21 04:47:00 It is not uncommon for companies to add the words ?password protection? when making an announcement regarding the loss of a computer. As in, the computer was stolen but it was password?protected. What is password protection? And is this protection better than other security measures like full disk encryption provided by data security solutions providers like AlertBoot? Because Microsoft dominates the world when it comes to computer operating systems, generally password protection refers to the Windows login prompt. The Windows login prompt is the little window asking for a username and password one faces immediately after booting up their computer. If you work with a Windows PC at work, chances are you?ve seen this prompt. If you use a Windows PC at home, there is a slight chance that you haven?t seen this prompt, since it?s not a required feature ? you have to set it up. To the average user, the Windows prompt appears to be a securi...
Full Disk Encryption On Stolen Laptop Would Rid Sodexo Of Uncertainty
2008-05-20 07:41:00 Sodexo, a global company that provides integrated food and facilities management (cafeteria food and HVAC maintenance?a winning combo? Well, it?s working for them to the tune of billions in revenue) has notified the Maryland AG that a company laptop was lost, according to pogowasright.org. The lost laptop, which one concludes is lacking full disk encryption, may affect 919 employees, a fraction of the 342,000 employees that work for Sodexo. Does the figure of nine hundred just mean Maryland residents of total affected employees, or is that the actual total number of employees affected? I?ll bet it?s the former; less than 1% of employees affected? Sounds too good to be true. The laptop was stolen from an employee?s car, and while the computer had password protection, it looks there wasn?t much else in terms of data protection. Sodexo thinks that there may be names and Social Security numbers in the lost laptop, data that could lead to identi...
Perform Elementary Encryption with tr Command
2008-05-18 10:23:00 Reading the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper today, I ran across the popularly syndicated JUMBLE puzzle, which is a scrambled word game. Interestingly enough, the versatile UNIX tr command came to mind again. By providing a jumbled alphabet key, the UNIX tr command can perform an elementary encryption operation. Here is a simple example.To "encrypt" the contents of mysysad.txt in uppercase.# sh# cat mysysad.txt | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' | tr '[A-Z]' "PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ" > mysys.txt# more mysys.txtGMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY.To "decrypt" the contents of mysys.txt in lowercase (original state)# cat mysys.txt | tr "PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ" '[a-z]'Or use the echo command per Denis' (commenter) suggestion# echo "GMU GKPJBXPGU WGAXAGL IKOHARUB HUKBPGAXGL DAGMAJ WJAY." | tr 'PETRUSCMANFXZJOIVKBGWHDYLQ' '[a-z]'
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If Hard Drive Encryption Is So Powerful, How Were FARC?s Documents Analyzed
2008-05-17 07:59:00 Anyone following international politics may have heard about Chavez?s latest rant against the western world. This particular rant?as opposed to his other, regular rants against the western world?stems from a finding by Interpol that confirms the legitimacy of files found in the computers and other digital devices belonging to a now?deceased FARC leader, Raul Reyes. The Interpol finding is damaging because apparently some e?mails found in the computers imply that the government of Venezuela, at its highest levels, has been supporting FARC, which is considered a terrorist organization by the US and the EU. The devices in question were recovered in March by Colombian security forces, after raiding a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) camp in Ecuador. At the time, there was a lot of talk about the contents of the computers, external drives, and flash drives being encrypted. Although I haven?t been keeping up with the news, my understanding was t...
Full Disk Encryption Is Priority One For Formula One Drivers: Blackmail Sug
2008-05-16 06:50:00 Reportedly, a ?thief? has tried to ?blackmail? Formula One driver Adrian Sutil. I?m having problems calling the guy a thief, though, and I?m not sure I see the blackmail angle. Not that I?m excusing this guy from his actions. Either way, he has helped highlight the need for better disposal practices when it comes to throwing away one?s computer. Hard drive encryption could have helped in this case, although a magazine publisher with standards will serve in a pinch. The facts are the following, supposedly: Sutil?s father gets rid of the computer. Nobody knows where it ended up, but a man by the name of ?Dieter? acquires the hard disk found in the computer. Dieter accesses the disk and finds Sutil?s data: financial information, such as Swiss bank account transactions, as well as photographs and personal correspondence. Obviously, data security measures like full disk encryption from AlertBoot were not present; otherwise, Dieter wouldn?t...
Folder Encryption 5.2.8
2008-05-16 04:31:00 KaKa Foder Encryption is a powerful and easy-to-use program for encrypting and protecting your data. You can encrypt any folder including flash disk and removable hard disk. Features: Fast and Simple: With one-click encryption and decryption. Instant encryption and decryption Strong Encryption Algorithm: Using the Original encryption technology that can effectively protect your data. Encrypted folders are characterized by ...
Full Disk Encryption Not Used In Yet Another Lost BOI Laptop
2008-05-15 09:37:00 The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has announced that a fifth laptop has been stolen. Honestly, I?m not sure if this a needed announcement; if any penalties are given due to this latest revelation, I believe that it?ll just be a case of a company being penalized for having meticulous records. (Of course, not that I would go about saying that?s always a bad thing; lots of deserving people were caught for the same reason.) However, why would a theft from 2001 have a bearing on what?s going on today? If any crime was perpetrated due to that particular incident, the affected would have been victimized by this time. Revealing the theft at this point is just asking for a lawsuit?that will probably be shot down eventually because of some statute of limitations, wasting everyone?s time and taxpayer money (but then, I may be wrong since I?m not a lawyer). Plus, you can?t blame the bank for belatedly revealing such a theft. It was seven years ago; people probably ...
Hard Drive Encryption Missing In Missing Canadian Bank Laptop
2008-05-15 09:33:00 First Calgary Savings has announced the loss of a laptop with sensitive customer information. The laptop was in a bank employee?s car when it was stolen. Hundreds of customers may be affected by the latest information security breach, since disk encryption was not used on that laptop. The data was protected by a password, but the article correctly points out that the computer would be vulnerable to a determined hacker. Customers are incensed, naturally. A customer who?s been banking with First Calgary Savings for fourteen years was quoted as saying that he was livid about the news, and that ?In today's society, I don't think confidential information should be on someone's laptop and kept in their car.? Not an incorrect statement to make. On the other hand, there generally tends to be a reason why sensitive information is stored on a laptop to begin with?although I?m not sure what it could be when it comes to a bank. ...
Hard Drive Encryption Still Not Deployed Company-Wide At Pfizer: An Update
2008-05-14 08:04:00 Contrary to my ruminations the other day, the recently lost Pfizer laptop did have encryption, according to a Pfizer spokeswoman quoted in the Associated Press. However, a flash drive was also lost along with the laptop, which was not protected in any way. This wouldn?t be an issue except that sensitive information?names, addresses, phone numbers, salaries, etc.?we?re actually located in the flash drive and not in the laptop. The spokeswoman also mentioned that Pfizer is ?working to improve data security and privacy protection and encrypting laptops and desktops worldwide.? It looks like I may have the jumped the gun yesterday when I wondered when Pfizer would start employing full disk encryption. On the other hand, when I say full disk encryption, it actually means more than encrypting hard drives. Disks come in many forms and sizes, and as this case shows, it is paramount to approach data security in a holistic manner, trying to find the diffe...
UK Military Using Full Disk Encryption On 20,000 Laptops
2008-05-13 07:25:00 The security?breach whipping?boy for the past 6 months has decided that it has had enough. The UK government, more specifically the military, is installing encryption software on 20,000 laptops. The military already had a program in progress where 300,000 users would be able to access information via their web-browsers. Called the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII), it was designed for accessing all types of information, from ?classified? to ?top secret.? Of course, there is always the risk of data being leaked; so, supposedly, the system was also designed so that information displayed on the web-browser won?t save locally, which is in some respects a better way of protecting data than using, for example, encryption. However, I?m left wondering whether such a tactic will be enough. What if the laptop gets stolen and some outsider is able to access the central database where the information resides? After all, the laptop becomes the p...
Hard Drive Encryption Still Not Deployed Company-Wide At Pfizer?
2008-05-13 07:19:00 There are reports that Pfizer may be in another data breach maelstrom. According to theday.com, an employee lost a laptop, as well as a flash drive, with information on 13,000 employees at the pharmaceutical company. The breach itself occurred about a month ago. There were no details on how the breach itself occurred, nor what type of data protection system was installed. Pfizer has been in the news over information security breaches quite a few times over the past year. According to theday.com, this breach is the second this year, and the sixth since May of last year. Pfizer e-mailed affected employees to let them know that Social Security numbers were not part of the lost data, but that names, home addresses, phone numbers, positions, and salaries may possibly be compromised. Of course, while this may not be enough to carry out identity theft, it is enough information to possibly carry out some kind of phishing scam?if a criminal gets lu... |
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