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Granular access to encrypted data in the cloud

Newline Software announced the release of OPTIC, Online Privacy Technology In the Cloud. The solution allows developers to securely query, write, and read encrypted data to …

Mac OS X Lion login password easily revealed

Mac OS X stores user login passwords in system memory even if the computer is locked or put into a sleep mode. The vulnerability is present in all modern versions of Mac OS X, …

A new approach to circumventing state-level Internet censorship

A group of researchers led by J. Alex Halderman, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, have been working on a new …

Encrypted voice calling for the iPhone

Cellcrypt Mobile for iPhone provides voice call encryption for commercially available off-the-shelf cell phones using government-certified security through an easy-to-use …

Disk encryption is an IT security priority

As data protection mandates become stricter and high profile instances of data loss proliferate in the media, a new survey by DigitalPersona found that 67 percent of …

SSL Analyzer: Free scanning tool

Comodo announced the Beta release of its SSL Analyzer, a free web site scanning tool which provides an instant summary of web server security levels. After typing a domain …

Portable Microsoft endpoint for secure cloud computing

SPYRUS announced Secure Pocket Drive, the first and only licensed device that boots Microsoft’s mobile, flagship operating system, Windows Embedded Standard 7, from an …

Encrypted voice calling for Android

Cellcrypt launched Mobile for Android, a version of its encrypted voice calling application that runs on Android devices operating over Wi-Fi, GSM and CDMA wireless networks. …

Study examining the usage of hardware-based encrypting drives

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) and Ponemon Institute released a full report on the perceptions about self-encrypting drives. The study interviewed 517 IT practitioners in …

French certification authority reveals its private key by mistake

Certigna, a major French certification authority whose certificates are trusted in all of today’s most popular browsers – IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and many …

Concerned with the vulnerability of authentication tokens?

Since RSA has finally admitted publicly that the March breach into its systems has resulted in the compromise of their SecurID two-factor authentication tokens, organizations …

Flashback: Encrypted backups for Android

Flashback provides encrypted backups to the cloud, giving you reliable access to your data along with the peace of mind that it’s secure. Flashback allows you to backup …

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