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The social smart lock of the future

Today at the D: All Things Digital conference, designer Yves Behar and technology entrepreneur Jason Johnson launched the August Smart Lock. The intuitive new lock and access …

GFI Software buys online backup vendor IASO

GFI Software acquired the online backup software company IASO, based in The Netherlands. IASO provides cloud-based solutions that provide customers with secure backup and …

Chinese army announces drill to test its digitalized forces

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has announced it will be holding a military exercise in June, aimed at testing “new types of combat forces including …

Judge orders porn suspect to decrypt his hard drives

After having first decided against forcing a suspect to decrypt a number of hard drives that were believed to be his and to contain child pornography, a U.S. judge has changed …

Ruby on Rails bug is being exploited in the wild, researcher warns

Administrators of servers running Ruby on Rails are advised once again to upgrade to the latest versions of the framework (3.2.11, 3.1.10, 3.0.19, and 2.3.15), as a …

Liberty Reserve laundered $6 billion through illegal transactions

An indictment has been unsealed on Tuesday charging Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services, and seven of …

Anonymous hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty

Jeremy Hammond (aka “Anarchaos”), the Anonymous hacker that was charged last year with crimes relating to the December 2011 hack of Strategic Forecasting …

Addonics releases CipherUSB family of hardware encryption solutions

Addonics Technologies announced a family of USB hardware encryption solutions that protect data stored on hard drives, removable drives, flash media, optical media or in the …

McAfee unveils Complete Endpoint Protection suites

McAfee introduced two new suites: McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Enterprise, and McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection – Business. The suites include McAfee …

Backup large data with Big Cloud

Sterling Data Storage released its largest data backup solution yet — the Big Cloud. It was designed for companies needing to securely store large amounts without sacrificing …

Can mobile malware be activated via sensors?

Can mobile malware be activated via sensors available on current mobile devices, and receive commands through out-of-band communication methods? If you ask a group of …

How secure is quantum cryptography?

Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over networks today and …

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