encryption

A framework for building privacy-oriented apps

February 25, 2013

At the RSA Conference 2013 in San Francisco, SpiderOak announced it is launching privacy into the mainstream with the unveiling of Crypton, a “zero-knowledge” …

Silent Text iOS app can auto-delete sent messages

February 22, 2013

Silent Circle announced features in the company’s updated Silent Text secure messaging app for iOS. Customers can now: Send private encrypted messages and use Silent …

Freezing Android devices to break disk encryption

February 18, 2013

Two German computer scientists have proved that it’s possible to access and recover data from an encrypted Android smartphone by performing a set of simple and easily …

Symantec unveils new SSL algorithms and web security products

February 15, 2013

Symantec unveiled new updates to its Website Security Solutions portfolio with capabilities to meet the increasing security and performance needs for connected businesses. The …

FIDO Alliance designs open, non-proprietary authentication protocol framework

February 12, 2013

Internet companies, system integrators and security providers have formed the FIDO Alliance (Fast IDentity Online) to revolutionize online authentication with an industry …

Data protection practices in EU and Asia

February 12, 2013

Research undertaken by Field Fisher Waterhouse into the existing legal framework mandating encryption of personal data in the EU and Asia details legal requirements and …

Aegis Bio: Encrypted USB 3.0 drive with biometric fingerprint access

February 7, 2013

Apricorn announced the Aegis Bio 3.0, a software-free biometric USB 3.0 drive that safeguards data with secure fingerprint access and military grade 265-bit AES-XTS hardware …

None of the 100 largest e-commerce sites have fully implemented DNSSEC

February 5, 2013

The biggest brands in e-commerce are overlooking a critical security technology that could reduce the risk of identify theft and credit card fraud. An analysis of the 100 …

Encrypted video and texting for iPhone and iPad

January 28, 2013

ZipaClip is a secure mobile video and texting application for iOS devices. The free version of ZipaClip allows users to send and receive fully-encrypted texts and video clips …

Vormetric Vault: Manage certificates, keys and security objects

January 28, 2013

Vormetric announced Vormetric Vault, an all-in-one scalable solution for protecting and managing digital certificates, encryption keys and other security objects such as …

GitHub’s new search reveals passwords and private keys

January 25, 2013

GitHub, the popular online source code repository, has unveiled on Wednesday a new search infrastructure that should help coders find specific code within the millions of the …

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