British mobile security firm Cellcrypt is partnering with carrier giant Verizon to sell its voice encryption technology for mobiles and smartphones to the US Government, the pair have announced. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
MerlinCryption Introduces A Fully-Scriptable M2M Encryption Platform Automating OEMs With Dynamic Customized Security
MerlinM2M, the Smart-Worldâs Smart-Encryption⢠debuts MerlinWrap, a scripted controller that âwrapsâ end-to-end processes into a tightly customized and impenetrable sequence of execution, protecting M2Ms from counterfeiting, cloning, and data theft View full post on cyber security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Symantec says stolen encryption key is the source of signed malware
When Kaspersky Lab last week spotted code-signed Trojan malware dubbed Mediyes that had been signed with a digital certificate owned by Swiss firm Conpavi AG and issued by Symantec, it touched off a hunt to determine the source of the problem. The answer, says Symantec’s website security services unit, is…
SaaS, Cloud, encryption & you
This article is part of the Business IT Series in association with Intel Opinion SaaS, Cloud, encryption you Published: 14:41, 31 January 12 Any IT professional who has heard “send it to my Hotmail” or “popped it into Dropbox for you” echo across the office will know how impossible it…
CrypTweet encryption app gets poor security reviews
A prominent technologist is cautioning people not to put full confidence in an application he developed that intends to provide security for sending private messages on Twitter. The application, called CrypTweet, was released on Monday, but at least two security and privacy experts have concluded it has major security holes….
Satellite communication encryption cracked by scientists
Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications. The Ruhr University Bochum’s (RUB) Horst Görtz Institute for IT security today issued an announcement detailing how researchers there have…
Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers
German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper titled Don’t Trust Satellite Phones (currently available only as an abstract), Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund of Ruhr University describe how they reverse engineered…
SaaS security: Weighing SaaS encryption options
A look at SaaS encryption techniques and challenges. View full post on SearchCloudSecurity: RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Laptop users offered simple full-disk encryption upgrade
Security company ST Electronics has shown a new hard drive enclosure that can be used to upgrade a laptop running any operating system to full-disk encryption without the need for drivers or BIOS modifications. The DigiSAFE DiskCrypt is a 2.5 inch enclosure which comes with its own hardware cryptographic module…
Check for encryption or secure sites when providing confidential information online
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