Encryption vendor rolls out new authentication, cryptographic key storage products
Encryption vendor SafeNet is now offering technologies that help enterprises securely store and access information held in third-party data centers.
The transaction processing company is installing end-to-end encryption
Responding to its widely reported and massive data breach that took place a year ago, Heartland Payment Systems will be moving to an end-to-end encryption system for payment transactions, according to Chairman and CEO Robert Carr.
Attack works on older WPA systems that use the TKIP algorithm
Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute.
How to secure your data through hard drive encryption
Losing your laptop can be expensive in three ways. First, you'll spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to replace the hardware. Second, you'll suffer the time and aggravation of restoring your data, all the while hoping you have everything backed up properly. But most expensive? Surviving the backlash and legal consequences of losing customer data, financial records and private company information.
Mobile device security vendors rolled out an array of systems at Cebit for governments and companies looking to protect their voice calls.
U.S. President Barack Obama's dilemma over the security of his BlackBerry has given rise to an increased interested in systems that can scramble voice calls to avoid interception.
It's working with standards committees to win acceptance of its protocol
Sun announced Tuesday that it is throwing its hat into the standards arena, proposing that its open-source key management API be used as a universal way to allow encrypting devices to communicate with key management systems.
HP and IBM are promoting a new encryption key management standard called KMIP.
A group of industry vendors, led by IBM, Hewlett-Packard and EMC, is proposing a new standard to make their encryption management software work together.
Drive makers settle on a single encryption standard
The world's six largest computer drive makers Tuesday published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- and the password will be needed even before a computer boots.
Unisys Stealth package uses encryption keys to take data and scramble it
Unisys has come up with an encryption-based method that lets "communities of interest" using Microsoft Windows securely share data based on group policies in a product called Unisys Stealth Solution for Network.
PGP upgrading three products to enable greater flexibility in its encryption technology.
PGP is upgrading three of its products to give security policymakers greater flexibility when working with its encryption technology.
Some users of Apple's MobileMe service are complaining about a lack of security when using the service at a public hotspot.
Users of Apple's MobileMe have already discovered that the US$99-per-year service is sometimes slow and unreliable, and they're now talking about another shortcoming that was intentional.
