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AES encryption vulnerable to attack, claim Microsoft researchers
Researchers from Microsoft and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven have discovered a way to break the widely used Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the encryption algorithm used to secure most all online transactions and wireless communications. The attack can recover an AES secret key three to five times faster than previously thought…
Dell ‘anti-breach’ encryption system arrives in the UK
Dell has launched its ‘anti-breach’ Data Protection Encryption product in the UK, which the company is pitching as offering businesses a way of securing all data-carrying drives in one fell swoop without the complexity and unreliability that has caused slow uptake of the technology to date. On sale in the…