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The Privacy Pickle March 29, 2012 
"Is privacy only for those with something to hide?" is the title of an open ballot on TuxRadar that has kicked off quite a debate. TuxRadar points to the full-disk encryption option now offered by several Linux distributions -- along with potential law-enforcement implications -- but the topic is also particularly timely in light of Canonical's recent moves to step up Ubuntu's privacy protections.
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Random Public Crypto Keys Aren't So Random February 15, 2012 
Public key cryptography, a system used to secure online traffic, carries a significant flaw, a group of European and American mathematicians and cryptographers has found. Public key cryptography requires the sender and the receiver of a message to each have a digital key to encrypt and decrypt it, respectively.
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Apple Does the Money Dance January 28, 2012 
pple's first fiscal quarter is usually a big one. The way its financial calendar works out, what it considers Q1 ends on Dec. 31, meaning it covers the entire holiday period, as well as maybe a little back-to-school action. But the numbers Apple posted about its most recent Q1 were in an entirely different class than the usual money bender it wakes up from this time of year.
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Take the 5th? Not With Encrypted Hard Drives, Says Fed Judge January 25, 2012 
Encrypting data on your computer may protect you from hackers and thieves, but it won't protect you from crime investigators. That was the finding of a federal district court in Colorado Monday in a case involving a woman who refused to decrypt the files on her laptop for government prosecutors.
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Quantum Tech Could Secure the Cloud Through 'Blind' Data Processing January 20, 2012 
Researchers led by the University of Vienna's Stefanie Barz have demonstrated the possibility of using quantum computing to unconditionally secure cloud computing. The scientists' work, written up in the journal Science, essentially demonstrates double-blind cryptography.
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How to Lock Down Your Laptop While on the Road November 17, 2011 
Losing a laptop may be less painful now than it used to be because the cost of replacing the physical device has trickled downward recently. You can now pick up a decent workhorse for three or four hundred dollars at a big-box retailer. Big deal if you lose it. What hasn't become less valuable, though, is the data held within.
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The Social Phenom That Was This Year's Dreamforce September 12, 2011 
At the biggest Salesforce.com event to date, Dreamforce '11, vendors had ample opportunities to strut their stuff. In fact, more than 46,000 people -- many of them very socially engaged -- registered this year. "In less than a decade, Dreamforce has become the largest conference in the enterprise software industry," said Fergus Griffin, vice president of product marketing for Salesforce.com.
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The Wedding Crashers September 03, 2011 
Nobody expected AT&T to have an especially easy time convincing regulators to allow it to buy up rival wireless carrier T-Mobile. AT&T announced its intentions last Spring to purchase the fourth-largest U.S. carrier from parent company Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, and critics from all corners wasted no time expressing why they thought that would be a very bad idea.
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TrueCrypt Locks Down Data In a Rock-Solid Vault August 31, 2011 
Linux users are blessed with a collection of file encryption tools. But chances are, whatever application you use for that task lacks the efficiency, speed and functionality of TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt does what any file encryption application is supposed to: It locks down access to your data so no one without a password or keyfile can grab it.
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Cough Up That Encryption Key - or Else! July 13, 2011 
Can the courts make you open your computer? They can certainly confiscate your computer and search it for evidence of criminal activity; they can compel you to open encrypted files if you're a suspected terrorist (The Patriot Act); but if you plead the Fifth, they may not be able to order you to fork over passwords.
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Breaches Everywhere: 5 Ways to Soften the Blow When It Happens to You June 21, 2011 
Is it just me, or does it seem like every day there's another breach to worry about? RSA, Epsilon, Sony, now Citibank -- it seems like a day doesn't go by where there isn't another high-profile breach in the news. It seems like everyone's getting hacked, and it seems like it's happening with increasing regularity.
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The Cruel Tutelage of LulzSec June 15, 2011 
LulzSec, the shadowy group of hackers that has hammered Sony, blown raspberries at the FBI and tweaked the nose of the United States Senate, set up a hotline Tuesday over which people can request hacks. Response was overwhelming, according to a tweet from the group. It claimed to have 2,500 voice mails and missed another 5,000 calls within hours.
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Dropbox Security System Doesn't Lock Down Files, Says FTC Complaint May 17, 2011 
The cloud-based storage system Dropbox is the most recent online provider to be criticized for misleading customers in terms of of privacy and security, according to an FTC complaint. Dropbox deceived customers by making them believe that its employees did not have access to their data, alleges Christopher Soghoian.
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Hacker Chatter Suggests Thieves Have Millions of PSN Customers' Credit Cards April 29, 2011 
Hackers are reportedly attempting to sell 2.2 million credit card numbers stolen from the PlayStation Network database. Sony earlier said customers' personal data was encrypted; however, the company could not rule out the possibility that hackers might have accessed it. By Thursday, security researchers had seen talk on underground forums of hackers hoping to sell credit card lists for as much as $100,000.
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The Many Colors of Cloud Encryption March 31, 2011 
Cloud computing is a priority for enterprises seeking greater agility, operational efficiency and overall cost reduction, but security concerns continue to inhibit its use. Half of all companies not adopting cloud computing cite security as the reason, according to a Forrester Research October 2010 study, "Security and the Cloud."
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Is P2P Encryption Secure? That Depends... March 01, 2011 
In the wake of the highly publicized payment card security breaches of the past few years, point-to-point encryption has emerged as a frontrunner in the search for a stronger defense against data compromise. The technology is also being touted as a solution to limit the scope -- and therefore the expense -- of complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard.
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Facebook Puts HTTPS Security Guard on Full-Time Duty January 27, 2011 
Facebook announced new measures Wednesday aimed at improving users' security when visiting the site. The news came with an intriguing twist: Mere hours prior to the announcement, it was revealed that the Facebook fan page of the company's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, was compromised by a hacker.
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Wikileaks Could Shatter Hopes for Greater Transparency January 03, 2011 
Rampant speculation about which major financial institution Wikileaks founder Julian Assange means to target with a document dump in 2011 has at least one U.S. bank playing aggressive defense. Bank of America executives are reportedly scouring documents for potentially damaging information, and trying to determine if any computer hard drives are missing.
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