Items Tagged with "Encryption"
Pump Up Your P@$$w0rd$
April 03, 2012 Added by:Kevin Doel
The idea is to choose phrase that you will be able to remember and a simple algorithm for converting it to a strong password. Even the best encryption systems are not going to protect your data if you use weak passwords and a hacker gains physical access to your mobile device...
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Vague Cybersecurity Legislation Threatens Civil Liberties
April 02, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
Using cryptography to protect communications could be taken as a way to defeat an operational control. Measuring the performance of one's ISP or analyzing whether packets are being modified maliciously could all be seen as security threats under this definition...
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CISSP Reloaded Domain 4: Cryptography
March 28, 2012 Added by:Javvad Malik
Cryptography, the dark art of information security. The deus-ex-machina, the silver bullet, the be all and end all of all security measures, so profound cryptography was first classed as a munitions. Widely misunderstood, often poorly implemented...
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Shutting Front and Back Door Access to Your Mobile Devices
March 27, 2012 Added by:Kevin Doel
A lost or stolen phone constitutes a serious security threat to the information on the device because the attacker has unlimited time to gain access to the secrets that are stored therein. Important personal information should not be stored in any unsecured note application...
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Public Key Infrastructure 1998 – 2012
March 25, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
PKI was and still is a powerful set of technologies. But it was a solution far ahead of its time. It was doomed by a lack of standards, interoperability issues, deployment complexities, and a level of complication that confounded even technologically competent end-users...
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Fifteen Unsafe Security Practices that Lead to Data Breaches
March 21, 2012 Added by:Kelly Colgan
Database security is an essential element of overall security maturity at enterprise level. Underestimating its value and not dedicating sufficient attention to developing a comprehensive data security plan can, in many instances, lead to data compromise...
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Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive
March 20, 2012 Added by:Ben Rothke
Liars and Outliers is an absolutely fascinating and groundbreaking book. In this election year where the candidates attempt to make sweeping simplistic promises to fix complex problems, Schneier simply answers that in our complex society, there are no simple answers...
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Assessment of Visual Voicemail Security
March 19, 2012 Added by:Enno Rey
After activation of the VVM feature, the configuration file is stored containing the username, protocol, state of the account and the server IP. Having the username and server IP an attacker can run brute force attacks against the email server which is exposed to the Internet...
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Examining the Top Ten Database Threats
March 14, 2012 Added by:PCI Guru
Most attacks are perpetrated inside the perimeter, so protection from an inside attack is important. Once an attacker is on the inside, it is easy to use SQL injection or other techniques to obtain data. Organizations are just beginning to understand the insider threat...
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CyLab Researchers Release Free Smartphone Security App
March 14, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"SafeSlinger provides you with the confidence that the person you are communicating with is actually the person they have represented themselves to be... SafeSlinger provides secure communications and file transfer even if the servers involved are tainted with malware..."
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How Safe is Paying Online with Your Smart Phone?
March 13, 2012 Added by:Robert Siciliano
Handset manufacturers, application developers, and mobile security vendors continue working to improve mobile security. Banks are offering a consistent sign-on experience for both their online and mobile channels, including multifactor authentication programs for mobile...
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A Tale of Two Encryption Cases
March 12, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
The issue in the decryption cases is not whether the decrypted contents of the computer are testimonial. Instead, the issue in these cases is whether the ACT of decrypting information on the computer is testimonial. The answer to that question is that it depends...
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HTTPS and Tor: Working to Protect Your Security Online
March 09, 2012 Added by:Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF frequently recommends that Internet users who are concerned about protecting their anonymity and security online use HTTPS Everywhere, which encrypts your communications with many websites, in conjunction with Tor, which helps to protect your anonymity online...
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Researchers Successfully Hacked Online Voting System
March 07, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained nearcomplete control of the election server. We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot. Election officials did not detect our intrusion for nearly two business days..."
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NASA Unprepared for Cyber Attacks
March 05, 2012 Added by:Pierluigi Paganini
The internal investigation at NASA also revealed that almost none of the agency's portable devices are encrypted, and that at least one of the stolen laptops contained algorithms to command and control systems for the International Space Station...
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OTA Advocates Always On SSL
March 05, 2012 Added by:Headlines
Online Trust Alliance (OTA) is calling on the security, business and interactive advertising communities to adopt Always On SSL (AOSSL), the approach of using SSL/TLS across your entire website to protect users with persistent security, from arrival to login to logout...