Researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into laptops can be used to covertly transmit and receive data through inaudible audio signals. Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz, two researchers from the Fraunhofer ...
Tags: Network Air Gaps, microphones, speakers
Microsoft has announced that it will introduce message encryption for its cloud-based Office 365 service in early 2014. Dubbed Office 365 Message Encryption, the system will automatically encrypt email to anyone outside a company ...
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Secure email providers Lavabit and Silent Circle have formed a partnership they call the Dark Mail Alliance, with the intention of creating a secure email service that can thwart government surveillance. According to security news site ...
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Dr Phillip Hallam-Baker, a vice president and principal scientist in charge of web security software development at security software vendor Comodo, has published a paper calling for a more robust internet architecture that can combat web ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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Google is distributing patches for a cryptography flaw in Android that may affect hundreds of thousands of applications. The patches have been passed to partners belonging to the Open Handset Alliance, a trade group dedicated to ...
Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data ...
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Google plans to upgrade the security of its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates, an important component of secure communications. SSL certificates are used to encrypt communication and verify the integrity of another party with which ...
Tags: Google, SSL Encryption Keys, August
A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can't get to the information -- even if the government requests access. And in recent years there have been ...
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Security researchers have uncovered yet another ongoing cyberespionage operation targeting political and human rights activists, government agencies, research organizations and industrial manufacturers primarily from Eastern European ...
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Sepaton today announced major upgrades to its enterprise-class backup appliance -- almost doubling the backup speed -- added encryption for data at rest, and increased connectivity from 4Gbps to 8Gbps Fibre Channel and 10Gbps Ethernet. ...
Tags: Sepaton, high end storage appliance, HP
Visa's payWave mobile payment applet will be embedded in next-generation Samsung smartphones and tablets enabled with NFC, according to an alliance that both Visa and Samsung announced Monday. The next-generation Samsung Galaxy S IV, ...
Mozilla is taking steps to limit the risk of powerful subordinate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates falling into the hands of attackers and potentially being used to issue rogue certificates for use in SSL snooping attacks. The ...
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The Mega file-sharing service has launched a vulnerability reward program that will pay up to 10,000 euros (around $13,600) for every serious security flaw found in the platform and reported responsibly. The rules of the program were laid ...
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Hacker group Anonymous said it had disabled the US Sentencing Commission's website in revenge for the death of internet freedom advocate Aaron Swartz, and vowed to release government data. The website of the commission, an independent ...