Displaying items by tag: Encryption

Ericsson and Telstra claim they have successfully demonstrated the ability to encrypt data securely while in transit between Los Angeles and Melbourne at 10Gbps, using Ciena’s ultra-low latency 10G wire-speed encryption solution.

Well-known cryptographer Moxie Marlinspike has slammed the Guardian for publishing what he described as a "false" report claiming that the end-to-end encryption used by WhatsApp has a backdoor.

If one issue dominated the headlines last year it was Internet privacy – specifically the lack thereof. It was not just the tech giants collecting masses of information via telemetry, search, email, calendars, and document snooping but the massive data breaches of Yahoo! and others that shook our faith in using the Internet, trusting email, and trusting household technology names.

Smartphones designed to protect the identity and data of users have been developed by Sydney tech company, NCryptcellular.

Not quite as epic as a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away is the still amazing news that "near perfect" light cloning could revolutionise ultra secure quantum communications.

A senior Apple official reassured the chairman of the Clinton presidential campaign that the tech giant would co-operate with the US government when it came to handing over "meta-data or any of a number of other very useful categories of data", as "strong encryption does not eliminate Apple's ability to give law enforcement" such data.

In January, Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA) sought Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's support for strong encryption and for his commitment to reject any law, policy or mandate that would undermine digital security.

With ‘top-level, government-grade’ hardware encryption that ‘meets or exceeds all industry encryption standards,’ Crucial wants to enhance your data security and protect business.

We know plaintext passwords are bad, yet for many a service provider, user API keys are left out in the open. Enough, says this CIO.

US politicians are set to introduce legislation shortly to force technology companies to assist law enforcement in cases similar to the Apple-FBI case that was recently in the news.

Quiet discussions between the FBI and Apple over gaining access to data on an iPhone belonging to the employer of one of the terrorists involved in shooting dead 14 people in California were suddenly thrust into the public domain when the FBI obtained a court order on February 16, demanding that Apple meet its requests.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Thus spake the Bard. And Swiss company ProtonMail has done just this, launching an encrypted email service at a time when encryption is very much at the top of the tech agenda.

Digital freedoms and rights group Electronic Frontiers Australia has joined forces with experts and organisations in more than 35 countries to call on world leaders to support strong encryption and to reject any law, policy, or mandate that would undermine digital security.

Non-profit, digital freedom and rights group, Electronic Frontiers Australia, has joined experts and organisations in more than 35 countries in asking world leaders to support strong encryption and to reject any law, policy, or mandate that would undermine digital security.

Artificial Intelligence, new encryption alternatives, malvertising, passwords and IoT devices dominate the evolution of online safety - and make up AVG’s online safety predictions. 

Quantum-safe crypto solutions and the arrival of quantum computing might still sound like they’re from a Bond movie but Acronis and ID Quantique are ready.

If you get an email purporting to come from Microsoft with the subject line ‘Windows 10 Free Update’, be warned, it’s a ransomware encryption attack!

High profile voices such as Steve Wozniak are decrying Australia’s new data retention laws for ethical reasons. However, not much has been said about the negative impact of the laws on Australian business – and it is significant, according to a digital software specialist.

Less than two months ago, the Australian Federal Parliament introduced mandatory data retention legislation, a law that most Australians do not want. They were able to do this because Australia no longer has a parliament that represents the will or interests of its people.

COMMENT: The Australian government may be starting to realise that their copyright and data retention policies are on a collision course. Officials within Attorney General's were advised of this years ago, but perhaps the point should have been made more incisively, or maybe internal agendas got in the way.