Displaying items by tag: Encryption

One of the many criticisms of the Government’s new data retention regimen is that it will create vast amounts of data that will attract hackers. Telstra says it has the answer.

The new IronKey S1000 USB 3.0 flash drive is twice as fast as competing drives, Imation claims.

An online article supposedly reveals the encryption tools that spies can’t hack, but the list doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

Venafi is a US based security company that secures and protects keys and certificates so they can’t be used by bad guys in cyber attacks.

The IT community needs to learn from cyber criminals, according to a senior HP technologist.

Social media giant Facebook has declared it's close to finalising end-to-end encryption across the network, in a bid to prevent government snooping across the globe.

ICT solutions vendor UXC has secured a strategic alliance with data encryption company Senetas to provide Australian government agencies, defence and large corporations with tailored data security solutions and services to protect their information.

Software engineers at data recovery vendor Kroll Ontrack say they have developed a new technology that can “drastically reduce” the amount of time it takes to recover encrypted hard drives with a logical or physical failure.

Google’s Eric Schmidt says that encryption and other technologies will reverse the trend toward governments being able to spy on their populations.

Internet encryption vendors are deliberately weakening their products to make it easier for government surveillance agencies to monitor content.

TOR is the dark side of the Internet, the so-called dark web, which provides a safe haven to privacy advocates but is also where drugs, child pornography, assassins for hire and other weird and illegal activities can allegedly be traded. The FBI has made a massive dent in the TOR network, compromising half of all TOR sites.

TPG is to offer its business and consumer customers "military grade" security of their data under a partnership with Cocoon Data Holdings, a company founded in Australia but now headquartered in the US. It has made an investment in Cocoon and has forged a technical partnership with Cocoon and its subsidiaries, Covata Australia and Covata USA.

A data recovery specialist has warned that WD external drives present particular recovery issues when failure occurs. WD says it's not that simple.

Two vendors are offering complimentary - and complementary - apps to help improve the security of Android phones and other devices.

IBM's zEC12 is the latest generation of the mainframe family that has been at the heart of enterprise computing for almost half a century.

Swinburne University of Technology researchers have developed a technique that uses nanotechnology to increase the storage capacity of optical discs and encrypt the data they carry.

Storage and security vendor Imation has expanded its range of hardware-encrypted USB drives.

LinkedIn users are being urged to change their passwords following reports that a file containing six million user passwords, albeit encrypted, has been leaked.

A new software protection system from SafeNet is said to be safe from prying eyes.

WD has revamped its My Passport range of portable drives. The new series includes an industry-first 2TB model.