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Video: Why You Should Encrypt Your Data
News The threat of having precious commercial data stolen is encouraging many organisations to encrypt data across their networks. But, as PGP's John Dasher argues, such encryption must be enterprise-wide in order to ensure total security.
[April 27, 2007, 16:52]
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation Of PGP 5.0
White Papers Strong cryptography, provably correct protocols, and bug-free code will not provide security if the people who use the software forget to click on the encrypt button when they need privacy, give up on a communication protocol because they are too...
[October 9, 2003, 0:00]
Enigma Code Machine Swiped From Bletchley Park Museum
News One of only three existing Enigma machines -- used by the Nazis to encrypt messages during the second world war -- has been stolen from the code-breaking museum at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. Identical Enigma machines, resembling typewriters...
[April 3, 2000, 12:07]
PKI Appliance Goes For Selective Security
News Data security company Ingrian Networks launched a PKI (public key infrastructure) appliance on Thursday that can encrypt selected data stored in an application or a database. Karim Toubba, vice president of product management and marketing, told...
[March 11, 2004, 16:00]
BlueZone Secure FTP
Downloads BlueZone Secure FTP is a free FTP client that offers security features necessary to encrypt and ensure data integrity. Supports SSL/TLS, and SSH out of the box, so you can encrypt passwords and data. It allows a user to configure both the data and...
[October 6, 2007, 4:01]
Folder Lock
Downloads Folder Lock is fast file-security software that can password-protect, lock, hide, and encrypt any number of files, folders, drives, pictures, and documents in seconds. You can lock, scramble, or encrypt depending on speed and security.
[April 28, 2008, 5:31]
IBM To Unveil Encrypting Tape Drive
News Big Blue on Tuesday plans to unveil its IBM System Storage TS1120, designed to store and encrypt data on tape drives. IBM's TS1120 aims to allow users to encrypt data at a tape level, whether they are using Big Blue mainframes or Unix systems, for...
[September 12, 2006, 9:05]
MS Encryption API In Beta
News The API will let users encrypt and decrypt messages, files, credit card details and other data. The main thing is it allows you to encrypt an app-let or ActiveX control and get it signed by an independent authority," said Mike Pryke-Smith, Internet...
[September 12, 1996, 10:34]
Start-up Simplifies Email Encryption
News A Palo Alto start-up has its sights set on making sure that more people encrypt their email. Voltage Security's email encryption system is a slight twist on the current practice of using a combination of security codes -- one publicly available and...
[July 8, 2003, 13:42]
Firms Urged To Embrace Email Encryption
News The head of security at pharmaceuticals giant ICI has called for more businesses to encrypt their emails. Simmonds advocated the use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) - a protocol that can be used to encrypt data packets as they travel between...
[April 13, 2005, 14:30]
PGP's 'bump In The Wire' Automates Email Security
News At the Gartner Security Conference in London on Monday, security software company PGP announced a product that allows corporate users to automatically sign and encrypt emails on the fly at the network level, without requiring any client-side...
[September 15, 2003, 14:55]
XML Encryption Specs Approved
News The two specs, XML Encryption Syntax and Processing and Decryption Transform for XML Signature, will enable Web pages using Extensible Markup Language to encrypt parts of a document being exchanged between Web sites, the World Wide Web Consortium...
[December 11, 2002, 7:01]
Cisco Offers Tunnel-less VPN
News Organisations using IPSec to encrypt company data currently need to set up a separate tunnel between each site and for each class of service. GET enables the ISR at the originating site to cache the packet header, encrypt the entire packet with...
[December 8, 2006, 16:06]
Via Chips Away At Security Issues
News Software makers can use a programming tool from Via to write applications that, in turn, use the generator to encrypt their files. LaGrande, which will be part of new Pentium 4 chipsets sold later in the year, will protect hard drives and encrypt...
[January 21, 2003, 16:34]
N+I: Symbol Adopts Wireless VPN Tech
News AirBeam Safe will encrypt data carried across wireless links, including 802.11b LANs and cellular networks. It will work alongside -- and also encrypt the data used by -- the existing AirBeam components; AirBeam Smart, which manages wireless...
[May 6, 2002, 7:31]
Use SSH To Secure Remote Admin
News Not only does SSH encrypt authentication parameters, it also encrypts all the session traffic. Both encrypt different parts of a packet. The TightVNC enhancement to the original VNC freeware application from AT&T research labs in the UK adds secure...
[March 17, 2003, 10:56]
Staff 'need Reasons' To Believe In Security
Talkback Larry Ellison said it best; "To reduce security breaches, businesses should encrypt their databases. Those intinities that require security should encrypt all their documents. This line; "An IBM security expert emphasized the need to monitor...
[October 14, 2005, 1:32]
Californian Law Targets Identity Theft
News However, you could read (the law) very conservatively: if you don't encrypt data.and maintain good audit trails, then you open yourself up to lawsuits. It's basically saying to companies that if you encrypt the data, you don't have to give notice.
[July 1, 2003, 8:51]
Ransom Negotiations For WWII Code Machine Begin
News The machine is one of only a handful in the world that were used to encrypt Nazi high command messages during World War II and is thought to be worth around £100,000. The Enigma code was used during the war to encrypt secret messages between U...
[October 9, 2000, 15:04]
Microsoft: Vista SP1 Due Next Year
News There are a few minor enhancements, most notably the ability to encrypt multiple hard-drive partitions using Vista's BitLocker feature. Lots of folks gave feedback that 'We have an OS partition and a data partition and we'd like to encrypt both...
[August 29, 2007, 18:15]
