Encryption

When you want to distribute documents (e-books, sensitive documents, etc) over internet or local network or want to send a sensitive document via e-mail or P2P file sharing network you might want to apply protection to it so it can’t be misused by others. PDF OwnerGuard is such an application which provides many protections and limitations like 512 bit strong encryption, expiry date, disabling

How Kevin Bacon and email delivery is related Mistakes happen all the time How attachment encryption can help keep your data safe Technically, anyone can read your e-mails if they’re not encrypted, and I’m not talking about those instances where you send the e-mail to the wrong guy, or forget to use BCC: and opt for CC: instead when replying.  I’m talking about sending the right e-m

Oregon Health & Science University has alerted nearly 900 patients that a laptop computer belonging to an OHSU employee was stolen from his hotel room in Chicago.  OHSU believes that the risk of identity theft is low because Social Security numbers were not included as part of the laptop computer’s data.  However, other information such as names, phone numbers, dates of birth, gend

If you are one of those who like to take very important documents in a pen drive with you, well, you should take care about it, you should pay attention to nobody can steal or use it. If you want to keep all you data in a secure mode, so you should use the free application called Rohos Mini Drive!Rohos Mini Drive is a free application for Windows, it which allows you to create an invisible partit

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Lenovo ThinkPad USB Portable Secure Hard Drive is available in either 160 or 320 GB versions, uses a numeric keypad allowing users to type in their pass code to access their data. The new Lenovo secure hard drive meets the 128-bit advanced encryption security standard to help ensure information remains secure. The hard drive features full-disk encryption for up to ten unique user ID’s and one ad

Will encryption stop people from accessing my information? Encryption simply makes it harder for people to gain access to important information, like passwords or sensitive information in a file. The first thing you should know about encryption is that the algorithm that is used to encrypt can be simple or more complex and that affects how securely what you have encrypted is protected. Encryption

Stored Procedures are very important and most of the business logic of my applications are always coded in Stored Procedures. Sometime it is necessary to hide the business logic from end user due to security reasons or any other reason. Keyword WITH ENCRYPTION is used to encrypt the text of the Stored Procedure. One SP [...]

Medical Mutual of Ohio, a health insurer, has announced the loss of eleven computer disks that may affect 36,000 retired Ohio employees.  A preliminary investigation has laid the blame on insufficient postage.  Medical Mutual hasn’t revealed whether the contents on those disks were encrypted, although one hopes something like hard drive encryption or file encryption was used to protect

According to Thales, the French aerospace, defense, and security company, more than thirty percent of companies surveyed do not know whether they will protect their back up tapes with encryption.  Plus, it was found that backup tape encryption pretty much came in last when it comes to data encryption -- much further behind than data protection solutions like full disk encryption and file encr

Such is the conclusion arrived in the State of Information Security Survey 2008 conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers, CIO, and CSO magazines, according to techtree.com.  The survey polled 7,000 IT executives in 119 countries.  According to the breakdown by TechTree, 55 percent of Asian firms are encrypting databases, 50 percent are adopting laptop encryption, and 47 percent are protecting

I was reading through some articles today, when I happened on one that referenced the Verizon data breach report from June.  What jumped out to me in that article was that it had noted “physical threats” accounted for 15% of all breaches.  When I read that, the first thing that came to mind was a physical attack: your laptop or your life. And it’s not unheard of.  I noted the

Windows Vista has built in file encryption utility. Normally you can access it from the file properties dialogue box. But if you want to encrypt and decrypt files and folders frequently, this is inconvenient and you may want to add this tool to context menu to access it from right clicks.To enable this tool to context menu you need a small registry tweak. Click on ‘Start’ In Vista and type reg

According to the first data loss survey Symantec has run in Australia, 80 percent of local companies had at least one data breach in the past five years, and 40 percent had between six and twenty breaches in the same period.  Furthermore, 59 percent of businesses think they may have had a data breach they are not aware of.  The leading form of data protection is encryption, probably eith

Is your PC not completed with Trusted Platform Module chip(TPM chip)? Well, you don’t have to worry about that. You can still use the BitLocker Drive Encryption with the flash disk. Unfortunately, this option is being hide by Microsoft. Here are the tips to activating it: 1. Click [Start], then write “gpedit.msc”, then press [Enter] to run [...]

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Germany’s T-Mobile has admitted to a data breach that could affect up to 17 million people.  While the breach had happened in the spring of 2006, T-Mobile hadn’t alerted its customers at that time.  This week’s announcement was prompted by the findings of Der Spiegel magazine, which was able to access the information from unnamed third-party sources.  The use of data encryptio

It was only two days ago that the world found out about the sale of a camera with confidential information from MI-6.  The media is now reporting that MI-5 is looking for a palmtop computer that went missing after a thief burglarized a house rented by the intelligence service.  The good news is that the device, which did have sensitive and confidential intelligence stored on it, had used

The Breach Blog is carrying a story about how a chiropractor practiced good data security.  I’d say the chiropractor saved himself some face and his patients a lot of grief by using what looks to be file encryption, a feature that’s also available in AlertBoot managed encryption service solutions.  The Breach Blog, however, seems to find fault with the fact that the practice ended up

Windows Vista tips : Windows Vista BitLocker Drive EncryptionWindows BitLocker Drive Encryption, only available in Windows Vista Ultimate, helps secure your data and documents in case your computer is lost or stolen. By encrypting the entire Windows volume, BitLocker Drive Encryption ensures no one can break into Windows and retrieve user information and documents.This feature is incredibly valuab

For security purpose, some times we need to hide data in database level. Only selected person can see the actual data. In Oracle there are some different ways to accomplish the objective.Among those ways, Encoding and Decoding technique is describe in this article :The idea is quite simple, we first generate a random key which is used to encode a column's data of a table. Store the key in a differ

For security purpose, some times we need to hide data in database level. Only selected person can see the actual data. In Oracle there are some different ways to accomplish the objective.Among those ways, Encoding and Decoding technique is describe in this article :The idea is quite simple, we first generate a random key which is used to encode a column's data of a table. Store the key in a differ

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust is alerting the public that four CDs with employee payroll details were lost on July 22.  The CDs were in transit to McKesson, a payroll company, where it was to be stored.  While the four CDs did not feature file encryption solutions like AlertBoot, the contents were protected via the use of alphanumeric passwords.   The total affected number of emplo

The UK Insolvency Service in Manchester has alerted 122 former directors of bankrupt companies, most of them small and medium businesses, that four laptops with their information has been stolen from a Manchester office.  The number of people affected, however, seems to be higher.  According to the telegraph.co.uk, the total number of companies affected is 122, and the number of people a

I found a fun little article that deviates from the usual disk encryption stories.  I was looking over Gizmodo today, and happened upon this post about a Tokyo shrine that blesses computers.  Quite a number of blogs have picked up on it.  Granted, you still might want to invest in a less-than-godly method like AlertBoot hard drive encryption solutions.  You know, just in case t

5000 employees of the justice system in the UK may end up victims of a data security breach.  It seems that EDS, working under contract for the UK government, has misplaced a hard disk with sensitive information, including names, dates of birth, National Insurance numbers, and prison service employee numbers.  There are a total of approximately 45,000 workers in the UK prison service.&nb

Windows Vista has a new security facility. It calls BitLocker Drive Encryption which was made to protect the data from the other people who are not allowed to open it. We can see it from the name; the BitLocker Drive Encryption is saving the data with encryption. The BitLocker Drive Encryption can be more optimized if [...]

It’s often recommend that people take precautions when they go out to party, whether it’s physical (don’t drink and drive; be aware of your surroundings), sexual (you don’t want to catch anything), or other.  The “other” category is a general catch all: don’t mess with guys that look like they belong to the mob, for example.  I mean, that can never turn out okay, unless you

A laptop computer has gone missing from the grounds of the Rochester Institute of Technology.  While the RIT breach does not affect all at RIT, a sizable part of the New York‑based institution’s populace is affected.  Anyone who, going as far back as 1968, has applied to enroll at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf is affected—approximately 12, 700 people—as well as 1,

A Reynoldsburg City School district laptop, which did not make use of hard drive encryption like AlertBoot to protect the information on the computer’s internal disk, was stolen from an employee while he attended a wedding.  The laptop was stolen from his car, a not so infrequent data breach scenario covered by this blog.  Makes one wonder if cars ought to be banned in the na

£6.99.  That’s how much a 36 year old anonymous computer programmer paid for a computer on eBay that held the details of 35,000 taxpayers in the UK.  This is the second case where a computer sold on eBay with sensitive information ended up in the hands of a civic‑minded person.  And this is just another example where the use of full disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot

The newspaper Scotland on Sunday broke the story that the NHS Dumfries and Galloway has lost two USB flash drives with information on patients.  The memory sticks in question did not feature disk encryption that would have ensured information security.  And, the breach was only made public because Scotland on Sunday filed a Freedom of Information request.   In a sign that muckraking

Another day, another case where full disk encryption such as AlertBoot would have helped to prevent a data breach.  Several sources are reporting that over 1 million customer details have been sold on eBay.  Not that eBay would have allowed this to happen.  They constantly monitor auctions for stuff that shouldn’t be there, such as human organs.  One presumes that selling cus

A data breach affecting over 8 million Best Western customers was reported over the weekend by the Sunday Herald, a newspaper in Glasgow, Scotland.  The Best Western hotel chain has released a statement earlier today saying that the claim is “grossly unsubstantiated.”  The company has also listed a number of methods they’ve used to protect customer information, and has noted that t

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Disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot was not used on a lost USB memory stick being used at Harris County Hospital District.  The loss of the flash drive will compromise the sensitive information on 1,200 patients.   According to the Houston Chronicle, three USB flash drives went missing from the desk of an associate administrator, described as being a “low‑level” position by t

It sounds like disk encryption was not used in a lost flash drive with information collected by the BBC.  The information doesn’t sound like it’s too sensitive in nature: names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, and dates of birth of children.  Yes, of children.  The information was collected from aspiring young volunteers to a new BBC show that’s being planned, Gastronuts.&nbs

A couple of days ago, I had a posted an article on the loss and eventual recovery (within the same “secure” office space) of a laptop computer belonging to the Clear program.  The laptop in question did not have disk encryption in place, an egregious oversight.  The web is abuzz about the details on this case.  There were a couple of things that were listed incorrectly on

A laptop with disk encryption is a safe laptop.  And that’s what Anheuser‑Busch (stock symbol: BUD) has, encrypted laptops that were stolen.  I’ve already covered the situation once, and updated it as well.  At first, there was only news that computers got stolen, and conflicting reports on whether there was laptop protection in place, as well as how many laptops got stolen (

There are benefits and drawbacks of hardware based data encryption.  Review the pros and cons of hardware based encryption. Data encryption was first used by the government, mainly to guard military secrets. In today’s world of Internet businesses, this method of protecting your computer data is being used more and more by financial institutions [...]

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USB hard drives with encryption go by a number of different names, such as flash drives or thumb drives. These devices can fit onto your key ring and can contain a huge amount of storage. There are also memory storage cards that can also be used for this purpose. As USB hard drives with encryption are easily lost or misplaced due to the compact size, many brands of these devices have the

A security researcher who was set to speak at the Black Hat hacker convention in Las Vegas next week on a previously undiscovered flaw in Apple’s FileVault encryption system has canceled his talk, citing confidentiality agreements with the Cupertino computer maker. Charles Edge, a researcher from Georgia, had been slated to discuss his [...]

Laptop computers containing sensitive information on current and former Anheuser‑Busch employees have been stolen from the beer maker’s premises.  The beer company has certainly been making a splash in the news: first, they get bought out by InBev, a Belgian conglomerate, releasing a tsunami of waffle‑related jokes; now, this.  It is not known how many are affected since the compa

The FBI is investigating the theft of medical records belonging to Grady Memorial Hospital.  At first, in a sure sign that the heat is getting to me, I thought that a data security solution like AlertBoot couldn’t have helped.  But once you start getting into the story, it’s quite obvious that file encryption would have helped secure the information.  Due to the nature of the fi

The similarity lies in the fact that most people think of implementing fixes after disaster strikes.  I bring this up because the Hillsborough Community College has warned 2000 employees that they should monitor their bank accounts, a laptop having been stolen this past Sunday.  Did the stolen computer have laptop encryption?  Nope.  Were they not aware that encryption solution

Nolan Bushnell is full of it. There, I finally got that off my chest. It's arguably acerbic and rather rude, but it needed to be said. You have no idea how hard I've tried to avoid saying it. After all, he's the founder of Atari and a historical figure unto his own. He deserves certain respect for that.The first time Nolan Bushnell claimed that the "encryption chip" will end piracy, I exercised du

When it’s time to protect the content in a computer, file encryption is a great way of approaching the issue.  While I tend to recommend full disk encryption, there are times when this is no good.  For example, back‑up tapes don’t mesh with disk encryption.  This means that individual files going on that tape must be encrypted, one-by-one.   And, yes, encrypting individua

A few months ago (see related posts) i released a small package for a XOR encryption in C. Now, here i am with an even smaller program for XOR encryption in Java. As expected, in Java it was way easier to implement it than C. No pointer loses, no "segmentation faults" no nothing. Nice and [...]

“Sd@sd!#dfs@wefe%@@##!” is what the dark lord would have said, if he weren’t so civilized.  No, instead his first words were “are you kidding me?”  The dark lord I refer to in this case is my boss.  He can tell you a thing or two about why data encryption is so important.  Especially now, since he is a former employee at Netegrity and, possibly, a soon‑to‑be

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Ameritrade is proposing a settlement to a class action lawsuit filed in response to their data breach last year.  Approximately 6.3 million customers were affected by the incident.  Although there have been no reports of identity theft yet—and, honestly speaking, we won’t know for some time, I imagine.  Attempts at identity theft tend to mature about a year after the breach itse

A military laptop and a 500‑gigabyte external hard drive were reported as missing earlier today.  Encryption solutions like AlertBoot full disk encryption would have prevented the incident from turning into an information security breach; however, the story has a happy ending.  It looks like the devices were recovered hours ago.  According to thenewstribune.com and columbian.com a

Scrambling for safety Thales, the French defence electronics firm, is buying hardware-based encryption specialist nCipher for around £50.7m ($100.3m). This works out at 300p a share, a 15 per cent premium of nCipher’s closing price in London on Thursday and double Wednesday’s closing price.… Read more…

These laws of computing don’t really exist in the sense of scientific laws.  They’re made up by Jack Schofield, a technology writer for The Guardian; at least, these particular laws are.  Schofield is attempting to create a third law, but as I see it, it easily be proven wrong, I’d say, if one uses data security products like full disk or file encryption.  The first law of co

Wagner Resource Group, an investment firm in Virginia is in the news thanks to the wayward actions of an employee who installed LimeWire on his computer.  Most people tend to use encryption if they are security conscious and believe they possess sensitive information.  As far as I can tell from the story at Information Week, this wasn’t a concern for the employee.  Because he

Several sources, including the Dong-A Ilbo (click if you can read Korean), are reporting on the arrest of a person of Chinese descent in the port city of Busan, South Korea.  The arrested is charged with attempting to steal trade secrets related to advanced shipbuilding techniques.  Stories like these show the importance of data security and encryption services like AlertBoot in the

It looks like CNet is not the only technology company to be affected by Colt Express’s computer theft.  It is being reported that Google has been affected as well.  Not only that, the comments section to the article also has someone commenting that ValueClick employees are affected due to the incident.  Hard disk encryption like AlertBoot or any other form of data security solutio

  CISA Quick Tips 18   following are the benefits of encryption: 1. Confidentiality Only legitimate destination (to whom data has been sent) can access the data. 2. Integrity Data has not been modified in the transmission process ****3. Non-repudiation**** Sender later can not deny his sending of data.     Where use of encryption is beneficial ? For Financial tra

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STEP 1 (Using the tar command on the directory /stuff) Suppose you have a directory /stuff. To tar everything in stuff to create a “.tar” file. $ tar -cvf stuff.tar stuff Which will create “stuff.tar”. STEP 2 (Using the tar command to create a “.tar.gz” of /stuff) $ tar -czf stuff.tar.gz stuff STEP 3 (List the files in the archive) $ tar -tzf stuff.tar.gz or $ tar -tf stuff.tar

The Elecom drive is for business professionals for whom data security is very important. The “MF-JU2BK2 series” supports 256-bit AES encryption, meaning your data is totally secure from prying eyes. No Tags

Security can't work without encryption, and of course Microsoft operating systems (except for MS-DOS) have all included some kind of encryption since Microsoft released OS/2 1.0 in 1987. But over the years, the sort of encryption that Microsoft builds into its OSes, and what it does with them, changes. Here are few notes on new crypto capabilities in Vista.Vista Includes New Cryptographic Services

I was reading a brief blurb today at tcpalm.com about cell phones and other items being stolen from various phone kiosks.  What arrested my mind is the following: “…cash had been stolen from the cash register, which had been forced open with a nail clipper in the key lock” [my emphasis].  I guess this is why some people confuse security measures, like full disk encryption, with “

Or at least, that’s the message I’m taking from an entry at pogowasright.org.  Ebara Technologies had recently filed a letter with the New Hampshire AG’s office, alerting them that one of their vendors had suffered a security breach.  A further follow up with by Pogo had a spokesperson confirm that the vendor was Colt Express, recently mentioned in this blog due to the CNet inciden

Auditors have today released their reports on the HMRC data fiasco from last year.  At the time, a junior employee was blamed for the loss of sensitive data affecting 25 million UK citizens.  The audit reports place the blame squarely on…nobody.  There are many covering this news, but the UK ZDNet seems to sum things up nicely.  And when one reads the conclusions, it mak

Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption provide consolidated workloads a platform for secure data and systems. This paper describes detail steps for setting up this platform for deployment of virtual machines. Download: Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and BitLocker Drive Encryption

Η Symantec Corp. ανακοίνωσε τη διαθεσιμότητα της λύσης Symantec Endpoint Encryption, σχεδιασμένη για να παρέχει εξελιγμένη κρυπτογράφηση σε desktops, laptops και εξωτερικούς δίσκους αποθήκευσης. Το Endpoint Encryption της Symantec είναι μια εξελιγμένη λύση τ

The New Hampshire Technical Institute has filed a letter with the New Hampshire AG due to a potential data breach.  According to the NHTI, a flash drive with information on students was lost on or around April 23.  There is no mention whether full disk encryption was used on the drive; based on their subsequent actions, though, it seems quite unlikely.  The lost informati

TNT.  It is explosive stuff.  It’s also the name of the courier that has lost a CD with information on approximately one million UK citizens.  If I’m not wrong, they were associated with several breaches in the past year as well.  For a courier company, they sure appear in the news a lot over losing packages.  One wonders how they’re still in business?  I mean,

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Lawyers for CNet have filed a letter with the Maryland AG office.  According to the letter, a third party vendor, Colt Express Outsourcing Services, was victim to a break‑in over Memorial Day weekend.  Computer equipment got stolen, although it’s not detailed how many or what type of equipment.  While the use of full disk encryption (FDE) services could have provided the clients

The audit arm of the Kansas state government has released a report on the disposal of surplus computer equipment, and whether Kansas is effectively dealing with any sensitive data contained on those computers.  The conclusion is that they’re not.  Certain practices have been recommended to the state for ensuring that sensitive data is disposed of correctly in the future.  It seems

Windows Vista includes a new hard drive encryption feature called BitLocker Drive Encryption. BitLocker can be a very useful security feature for businesses and home users that have sensitive and confidential information stored on their computer. Unfortunately, BitLocker Drive Encryption by default requires a Trusted Platform Module (TPM Chip) version 1.2 or later installed in your computer. A lot

Quest Diagnostics has filed a report with the Maryland Attorney General that three MD residents may have had their personal information compromised due to the theft of a laptop, which featured password‑protection.  The personal information breached for the three people include names, addresses, and Social Security numbers.  I assume that full disk encryption like AlertBoot was not used

With File Encryption XP, you can encrypt files of any type. It protects information against being viewed or modified without your authorization. The reliable and ultra-secure 384-bit Blowfish algorithm is used for data encryption and no encryption passwords are saved within the encrypted files. This makes the encryption very secure. The program has a convenient [...]