MAC News Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
Everyone knows that encryption is handy for protecting files from unauthorized users by denying access to their contents. Unfortunately, most people donít use encryption, in spite of the obvious advantages, because itís often too much of a hassle. To make encryption more transparent to the user, a new option is PGP Desktop 9.9....
SlashGear (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
There are many security systems out there. Many have claimed to be unbreakable, until one day they are broken. Now a new network has entered the scene that claims to be unbreakable. It’s called quantum cryptography. This system works off of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. This principle means that when someone tries to view information on a network encrypted by this system, the act of viewing...
Gadgets and latest digital toys (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sold as a "password recovery" solution for $600 (5 clients) to $5000 (2500 clients), Elcom Distributed Password Recovery is a software that allows its users to crack passwords from many applications. Among the "crackable" formats: Microsoft Office, PGD (PGP Disk with conventional encryption), OpenDocument, PDF (user and owner passwords) Quicken, WPA, WPA2 and many more (list below in the full post)....
eWeek (Free subscription) | yesterday
They may not be real-world problems, but wildcard certificates have some definite theoretical problems. But they can be so much cheaper that users will buy them anyway. - The imperative to use SSL, for web authentication and encryption or VPNs, is reasonably universal. Competition has driven prices of certificates down over the years to the point where you can get conventional SSL certificates from...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | yesterday
With SSL access to gmail and increasing use of SMTP-TLS providing encrypted MTA-to-MTA communications, email is more often only accessible in clear text on the server. Since Google is a US-based company, does it provide access to people’s mailboxes to the UK government.
Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Uses quantum cryptography no less A network created by scientists in Austria is being claimed to be unbreakable. ... Read Scientists unveil unassailable computer encryption network on Pocket-lint now
La Vie Quotidienne (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
This week’s readings on strategy, technology, investment and regulation are now online over on my other blog. Silicon Valley VCs sounding alarm bells, new ways of looking at marketing, quantum cryptography and EU’s introduction of new e-buyers’ rights all feature this week. Regularly scheduled programming on this blog will resume next week. Many deadlines looming. [...]
Forex (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Dear BusinessDirect customer, Security and confidentiality are at the heart of the Commerce Bank. Your details (and your money) is protected by a number of technologies, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. We would like to notify you that Commerce Bank carries out client details confirmation procedure that is compulsory for all our customers. This procedure is attributed to a routine banking...
Forex (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Dear BusinessDirect customer, Security and confidentiality are at the heart of the Commerce Bank. Your details (and your money) is protected by a number of technologies, including Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. We would like to notify you that Commerce Bank carries out client details verification procedure that is compulsory for all our customers. This procedure is attributed to a routine banking...
Engadget (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Call us devilish, but we just can't help but love these types of stories. Here we have yet another overly confident group of researchers grossly underestimating the collective power of the hacking underground, as gurus from all across Europe have joined together to announce "the first commercial communication network using unbreakable encryption based on quantum cryptography...
übergizmo (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
NetGear aims for first mover advantage again, this time round with the SXRN3205 ProSafe Wireless-N Virtual Private Network (VPN) firewall. This is touted to be the first effort of its kind, merging a dual band 5.0/2.4GHz Wireless-N with SSL and IPsec VPN. Targeting small businesses that want superior wireless performance without compromising on security, this need has been fulfilled by integrating...
Digital Trends - Most Recent News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
For years, researchers, pundits, and privacy advocates have been hailing quantum cryptography as the best technology for protecting data and network links, but the technology has always been so far off in the future that few people have paid much attention to it. That may all be changing, since the Integrated EU-Project SECOQC (Development Network for Secure Communication Based on Quantum Cryptography)...
Digital Trends - Most Recent News (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
For years, researchers, pundits, and privacy advocates have been hailing quantum cryptography as the best technology for protecting data and network links, but the technology has always been so far off in the future that few people have paid much attention to it. That may all be changing, since the Integrated EU-Project SECOQC (Development Network for Secure Communication Based on Quantum Cryptography)...
the INQUIRER (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Emma Hughes the Inquirer , Thursday 9 October 2008. 15:40:00 With a little help from Albert Einstein DATA SECURITY worries could soon be an anxiety of the past as in a world-first discovery quantum cryptography is used to form an unbreakable encryption. Around 41 partners from 12 European countries have been working with academics from the University of Bristol since 2004 towards this ultimate goal...
Soft32.com - Windows - New Releases (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
updated on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:41:01 CDT - Synchrojet - easy-to-use backup and synchronization utility for LAN, FTP/FTP SSL
