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Tag: encryption
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Does Facebook Really Care About Privacy?
Mark Zuckerberg has spent a lot of time and effort trying to convince users that Facebook cares about privacy. However, not everyone is convinced.
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What Is Blockchain and What Does It Do?
Blockchain has become an industry buzzword but not everyone understands what it is. Here are the basics for any business user.
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EFail Vulnerability Underscores Need For Email Encryption
Why the recently discovered email vulnerablity makes encyrption essential. But its not all that's needed.
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Why Email Encryption Still Has A Long Way To Go
With email providers adding new security features to their services, encryption is becoming more common. However, it is still not practical for many workers.
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Salesforce Adds 'Bring Your Own Key' to Its Platform Encryption Service
Salesforce is adding Bring Your Own Key functionality to the platform encryption service within Salesforce Shield, a set of integrated security services built natively into the Salesforce platform. Salesforce Shield rolled out last year. Its Platform Encryption is built into its metadata platform, which means customers can encrypt data
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What Merchants Can Do to Fight Credit Card Fraud
The latest figures from the Ponemon Institute and IBM 2015 Cost of Data Breach Study show an ongoing increase in the cost of a data breach. For companies that participated in the study, the number rose to $3.79 million. And that’s just the tangible cost.
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US Defense Secretary: Backdoor Surveillance is ‘Unrealistic’ #RSAC
Only nine months before his job will very likely come to an end, the man overseeing much of the nation’s intelligence admits you can’t achieve intelligence in secret.
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Top Security Expert Warns Firewalls Don't Work #RSAC
SAN FRANCISCO —In a keynote address before the RSA Conference today that harkened back to the headstrong days of the 1980s, when defiant academics demonstrated encryption using floppy diskettes, RSA President Amit Yoran threw down the gauntlet.
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Apple’s Privacy Powder Keg and the Real Security Problem
Should Apple let the government break encryption, asks every other e-mail Scott has received this week? The premise behind that question is the product of misinformation.
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Splitting iHairs Over the US District Court's Apple Order
A smartphone maker can’t just hand the government the tools it needs to break encryption, says Apple. But it’s been willing to let law enforcement give it a shot with older phones.
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Bing Search Encryption and Your Analytics Strategy
Think back three years and you probably recall a cacophony of moans and groans from digital marketers. Google had announced that search conducted through a Google service – Gmail, Google Plus, etc. – would be encrypted.
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Encrypt the Whole Web, Mozilla Pleads (Again)
If the whole web were encrypted by default, communications engineers argued, then malicious actors wouldn’t be able to guess which web sessions were relatively important by whether or not they were encrypted. The technology existed, the standards were in place and most of these engineers were supportive. It was 1999.
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Mimecast Wants You to Trust Business Email to the Cloud
A new, web-based secure messaging system announced this morning by Mimecast aims to address the continuing problem of malicious payload passing through email. Mimecast’s strategy with its simply named Secure Messaging service is not entirely new: Direct Outlook to upload email attachments to a web gateway, encrypt them there using
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Thycotic Releases Secret Server 8.8 for Enterprise Account Management
People are still choosing poor passwords. According to SplashData, which compiles a yearly report on the worst passwords, the word “password” itself was only second to the even more egregious 123456 in 2013.
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