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Best practices for removable media encryption

2009-01-07 00:00:00 by HASH0x84733a8 in Network World on Security
 
USB flash drives, iPods and other portable storage devices are pervasive in the workplace and a real threat. They can introduce viruses or malicious code to the network and be used to store sensitive corporate information. While IT has responded with policies and audits, the best way to safeguard data taken outside of a managed envrionment is...
 
Tags: portable storage devices, malicious code, store sensitive, real threat, introduce viruses, usb flash, encryption, safeguard data, network
 
 
 
 
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Encryption defeated, still an advocate?

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2008-02-22 16:15:15 by Evan Francen in The Breach Blog
...Encryption Originally I was not going to write about this because it is not a breach (incident), but Yesterday, researchers from Princeton University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Wind River Systems released an eye-opening report labeled " Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys " in which they "present a suite of...
 
Tags: encryption, disk encryption software, encryption software, information security field, information, hard drive encryption, disk encryption, text information, encryption keys
 
 
 
 
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Mujahideen Secrets 2 Encryption Tool Released

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2008-01-21 15:37:17 by HASH0x8b0f9c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...encryption tool was released online approximately two days ago, on behalf of the Al-Ekhlaas Islamic Network. Original and translated press release Is the first program of the Islamic multicast security across networks. It represents the highest level of technical multicast encrypted but far superior. All communications software, which are...
 
Tags: secrets, tool, encryption, secrets encryption tool, encryption keys, keys, digital, digital signature files, islamic
 
 
 
 
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Hardware Drive Encryption Becomes Manageable

2008-11-10 09:51:53 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
...encryption, but it's not always an easy decision., Software encryption products can impose a performance burden and key management can be problematic. The answer, argues Seagate, is hardware encryption built into the drive. Integration into McAfee's Endpoint Encryption products makes key management more organized and secure, and no CPUs are...
 
Tags: encryption, software encryption products, endpoint encryption products, drive, products, hard drive encryption, key, key management, sensitive data
 
 
 
 
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AxCrypt: Free, quick, convenient encryption for file sharing

2008-05-04 08:32:28 by Editor in Adventures in Security
 
...encryption programs are popping up every day on the Web. However, most of them require recipients of encrypted files to install the sender's encryption solution. I personally resist installing anything I don't absolutely need. And I certainly don't need copies of 20 or 30 rarely-used encryption programs taking up drive space. So I was excited...
 
Tags: encryption solution, free encryption programs, free encryption solution, encryption programs, files, share files, full-blown encryption product, install, drive space
 
 
 
 
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Laptop encryption

2008-05-09 05:00:00 by Stuart King in Stuart King's Security and Risk Management Blog
 
...encryption to ensure that appropriate risks are mitigated in the event of them being lost or stolen. Such pressure mounts when we also see organisations being fined when laptops go missing. For instance The Nationwide Building Society got hit last year for nearly 1m when a device that was taken from an employees home "contained confidential...
 
Tags: personal data, data, confidential data, laptop, encryption, confidential business data, confidential, laptop thefts, encryption product
 
 
 
 
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Cold Boot Attacks Against Disk Encryption

2008-02-21 13:29:18 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...encryption, the standard approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker, which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS X; and dm-crypt, which is used with Linux The root of...
 
Tags: main memory chips, memory, todays dram memories, dram, dram contents, memory contents, disk encryption, hard, hard disk contents
 
 
 
 
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My Princeton Experience and Optimism for Encryption

2008-02-26 05:56:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...encryption the research group has shown that foundations for a secure world remain elusive to the industry I enjoyed the opportunity to collaborate with Dr. Felten on the SDMI cracking effort while I was at Princeton. The recent paper on disk encryption vulnerabilities cites work based on part of my Ph.D. thesis (which explored...
 
Tags: security systems, engineer security systems, systems, security, complex security implications, security architects, feltens recent paper, recent paper, data security
 
 
 
 
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Encryption Presentation - .NET Developers Group - NYC Microsoft Offices - June 21st

2007-04-02 06:46:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...encryption at the .NET Developers Group on Thursday, June 21, 2007 . Its a similar presentation to the one Ive done for a number of user groups in the Southeast. I made this presentation as a response to the flood of online code snippets for encrypting data. While they are all fairly easy to use, they dont explain what they do and often...
 
Tags: encryption, presentation, level encryption basics, similar presentation, net developers, developers, symmetric, symmetric algorithm, symmetric encryption