Encryption

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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

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  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

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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

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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

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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,

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 [...]

Looks like I jumped the gun on the happy ending for the University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics.  If readers recollect, Perpetual Storage Inc. lost backup tapes that contained information on 2.2 million patients treated at the U of U.  Word is out on the street that the U of U may be sued; it’s just a matter of time.  On the other hand, the company that actually lost the tapes ha

And I agree.  Encryption solutions and other data protection solutions are an infinitely better way of protecting consumer data than letting people know they should be on the look out for financial fraud.  However, I do find issues with the points raised by Bart Lazar in a column he wrote for computerworld.com.  Granted, I’m not a lawyer, and I think he is, so I’m at a disadvant

The Fox Channel in Nashville is reporting that a laptop computer with information on 700 employees of the Dickson County Board of Education was stolen.  The theft seems to have taken place over the past weekend, and employees have a reason for being concerned: names, salary information, and Social Security numbers were stored on the laptop.  The only form of data protection was two passw

The story that Stanford University has lost a laptop computer has been making the rounds since Monday.  I thought I’d give myself a break from these “university loses computer—tens of thousands of people affected!!!” stories; however, there are so many wonderful comments (read: opinions that are mired in the technological Middle Ages) on so many news sites, that I feel like making som

Advanced Encryption Package is most noteworthy of its flexibility; not only can you encrypt files for your own protection but you can easily create “self-decrypting” versions of your files that others can run without needing it or any other software. The program includes a file shredder that wipes the contents of your original files. It [...]

The Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina (USC) is warning 7000 people that their personal information is at risk, according to thestate.com.  A desktop computer with information on students, faculty, and staff—along with other items—went missing over the Memorial Day weekend.  No further details were available, such as whether the stolen computer had hard driv

The University of Utah Hospitals & Clinics are getting ready to inform approximately 2.2 million patients and guarantors that their information may be compromised, although they’d find it highly unlikely.  According to businesswire.com, a company hired by the University of Utah lost a shipment of tapes with backups of billing records.  The tapes allegedly had the Social Security nu

The site tricities.com has an ongoing report from News Channel 11 on the theft of a desktop computer that may compromise the personal information of 6,200 East Tennessee State University (ETSU) staff, students, and alumni.  Although one wonders what else could have been done to prevent the theft itself, a data breach could have been easily averted by protecting the computer with full disk enc

Networkworld.com is reporting that AT&T has lost a laptop computer with information on management.  The compromised data includes names, SSNs, and salary and bonus information.  AT&T has declined to comment on the extent of the data breach, but anonymous sources have let networkworld.com know that “this is probably, but not everyone [has been affected].”  It sounds as if

Though it could have been condensed somewhat - several of the items seem to overlap - eWEEK has posted a nice slide show on the problems of laptop security. In this case, “nice” relates to the clarity of the presentation, not the feeling the message is likely to elicit. That message is that there are [...]

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And what type of resting you’re looking for your data: eternal or not.  (What a terrible play on words.  Thank God I wasn’t an English major; they might rescind my diploma.)  Anyhow, this may be a good time to explore some alternatives to data protection solutions like full disk encryption.  The montereyherald.com has an article describing how certain businesses have decid

AT&T recently announced the availability of managed security services that will apparently help business users protect their data. We want to know if the AT&T Encryption Services really works. AT&T Encryption Services is mainly focusing on the protection of information by indeed providing encryption services and management of digital signatures “in the cloud”. There are many [..

UK betting and gaming company pursues strategic enterprise data protection PGP Corporation, a global leader in enterprise data protection, today announced that William Hill Organisation PLC, a leading betting and gaming company based in the United Kingdom, has implemented the PGP(R) Encryption Platform for strategic data protection on laptops and to position itself for future encryption [...]

The information on 35,000 people was stolen from a security van in the UK.  The van was being used to transport computer tapes, which apparently did not employ any type of encryption, like those offered by AlertBoot.  The data breach included peoples home addresses, dates of birth, and letters of correspondence, which were digitized and saved electronically.  There were no bank acc

It seems just like the other day that I opined on whether companies take to full disk encryption and other data security measures only after they’ve experienced a data breach.  Now, in an act of cosmic timing, the winnipegfreepress.com is reporting that the Canadian Canola Growers Association (CCGA) is encrypting computer data after they lost a laptop with information on 32,000 Canadian far

Canada’s privacy commissioner released a report on Tuesday stating that our neighbors up north are subject to inexcusable security breaches because companies won’t use some of the most basic methods of protecting personal information, like full disk encryption on laptops, according to an article at the nationalpost.com.  According to Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, “nine in 10 people w

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 [...]

Police in New Glasgow were looking into the theft of a flash drive from the Pictou Country Health Authority office, according to thechronicleherald.ca.  Approximately 150 clients were affected, and as of today, about two thirds of them were contacted regarding the issue.  Normally, this wouldn’t be an issue since the authority uses disk encryption on their USB drives.  The flash

The negative aspects of the digital world have begun to rear their ugly heads.  It took some time, but they’re here, and in full force.  Going digital has meant that everything happens at the speed of light, as one CEO had stated when this particular revolution began.  The problem is, of course, that when everything happens at the speed of light, the bad stuff happens at that same

"...Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don't you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you

State Street Corp., the global money manager based out of Boston, is alerting 45,000 customers and employees that they may be at an increased chance of identity theft.  More specifically, they’re legacy customers and employees from Investors Financial Services (IBT), a firm that State Street acquired last year.  IBT had retained the services of a legal support vendor prior to being ac

Another hospital in the UK has fallen to a data breach due to the lack of data encryption.  The Isle of Wight NHS (National Health Services) has announced that they’re moving rapidly to encrypt their data, and is recommending it to all medical practices, according to the healthcarerepublic.com.  I, too, would agree that full disk encryption solutions like AlertBoot are necessary in med

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The importance of full disk encryption solutions for laptops and other digital media has been espoused a myriad of times by numerous security vendors like AlertBoot.  We’ve all heard the stories regarding identity theft, and the importance of keeping Social Security Numbers safe.  Then there are those unique stories that cause one’s jaws to slacken.  Those unique, imaginative ca

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Networkworld.com has a small slideshow of the top ten worst data breaches of all time when it comes to unencrypted data.  Of course, these are only known instances, as networkworld.com points out.  They also point out that the data breaches could have been prevented if the laptops in question had been secured with hard drive encryption, a service that is provided by AlertBoot, among othe

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The loss of a backup tape from the Bank of New York Mellon is making the rounds on the internet.  According to a press release by the Connecticut AG’s office, the backup tape was lost by the storage company that was in charge of keeping the tapes safe, Archive Systems, Inc., not by the bank itself.  It’s one of those instances when one hopes that full disk encryption was applied to t

Joe Sill bought fifty computers from a government auction.  His intent, according to koco.com, was to refurbish and resell them.  Instead, he’s had to put a hold on those plans because he found over 5000 Social Security numbers in the computers’ hard drives.  If only those drives had full disk encryption on them; then, Sill would have just installed a new OS and be done with it.

The University of Florida will be notifying patients that there was a breach of their information.  According to the Triangle Business Journal, an assistant professor of plastic surgery at the university stored digital photographs of patients and identifying information on a computer.  The identifying information included names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and Medicare numbe

www.blackberry.com Research in Motion (RIM), the Canadian wireless communication specialist firm which developed the coveted Blackberry services on its mobiles (but next to Apple's iPhone in popularity) to the world is in tussle with Government of India and DOT India with security and privacy issues relating to the emails send over the Blackberry to Blackberry mobiles worldwide. Blackberry is a p

It is not uncommon for companies to add the words “password protection” when making an announcement regarding the loss of a computer.  As in, the computer was stolen but it was password‑protected.  What is password protection?  And is this protection better than other security measures like full disk encryption provided by data security solutions providers like AlertBoot? 

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Sodexo, a global company that provides integrated food and facilities management (cafeteria food and HVAC maintenance—a winning combo?  Well, it’s working for them to the tune of billions in revenue) has notified the Maryland AG that a company laptop was lost, according to pogowasright.org.  The lost laptop, which one concludes is lacking full disk encryption, may affect 919 employee

Every now and again we get the question of "what is the difference between encryption and encoding?" This came up again today so we wanted to try to answer it more broadly. In short, the feature that we call "encryption" is a feature that was introduced for ACCDB files in Access 2007. This feature was an improvement over the feature known as "encoding" in Access 20

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Reading the "Stars and Stripes" newspaper today, I ran across the popularly syndicated JUMBLE puzzle, which is a scrambled word game. Interestingly enough, the versatile UNIX tr command came to mind again. By providing a jumbled alphabet key, the UNIX tr command can perform an elementary encryption operation. Here is a simple example.To "encrypt" the contents of mysysad.txt in uppercase.# sh# cat

Anyone following international politics may have heard about Chavez’s latest rant against the western world.  This particular rant—as opposed to his other, regular rants against the western world—stems from a finding by Interpol that confirms the legitimacy of files found in the computers and other digital devices belonging to a now‑deceased FARC leader, Raul Reyes.  The Interpol

Reportedly, a “thief” has tried to “blackmail” Formula One driver Adrian Sutil.  I’m having problems calling the guy a thief, though, and I’m not sure I see the blackmail angle.  Not that I’m excusing this guy from his actions.  Either way, he has helped highlight the need for better disposal practices when it comes to throwing away one’s computer.  Hard drive e

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The Bank of Ireland (BOI) has announced that a fifth laptop has been stolen.  Honestly, I’m not sure if this a needed announcement; if any penalties are given due to this latest revelation, I believe that it’ll just be a case of a company being penalized for having meticulous records. (Of course, not that I would go about saying that’s always a bad thing; lots of deserving people were c

First Calgary Savings has announced the loss of a laptop with sensitive customer information.  The laptop was in a bank employee’s car when it was stolen.  Hundreds of customers may be affected by the latest information security breach, since disk encryption was not used on that laptop.  The data was protected by a password, but the article correctly points out that the computer w

Contrary to my ruminations the other day, the recently lost Pfizer laptop did have encryption, according to a Pfizer spokeswoman quoted in the Associated Press.  However, a flash drive was also lost along with the laptop, which was not protected in any way.  This wouldn’t be an issue except that sensitive information—names, addresses, phone numbers, salaries, etc.—we’re actually

The security‑breach whipping‑boy for the past 6 months has decided that it has had enough.  The UK government, more specifically the military, is installing encryption software on 20,000 laptops.  The military already had a program in progress where 300,000 users would be able to access information via their web-browsers.  Called the Defence Information Infrastructure (DII), it

There are reports that Pfizer may be in another data breach maelstrom.  According to theday.com, an employee lost a laptop, as well as a flash drive, with information on 13,000 employees at the pharmaceutical company.  The breach itself occurred about a month ago.  There were no details on how the breach itself occurred, nor what type of data protection system was installed. 

In cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information (referred to as plaintext) using an algorithm (called cipher) to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information (in cryptography, referred to as ciphertext). In many contexts, the word encryption also implicitly refers to t

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Or any other form of note that will stick to the computer.  UK government workers may want to keep that in mind: An internal memo has been passed around, acknowledging that the Department for Work and Pensions (DPW) has been effectively providing a way to breach their own security procedures:  From politics.co.uk:  “I have been advised of instances where password protected data has been sent out with the password being sent separately as detailed in Security Notice 02/07.“However, once the data and the separate password are received, staff are then forwarding the data and password on together. This defeats the purpose of the security measure entirely.”  And how.  Perhaps it’s just a matter of educating how protection measures work in the digital age.&nb

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Saks Fifth Avenue, one of the premier names when it comes to shopping, has filed a letter with the Attorney General of New Hampshire, notifying them of an information security incident.  In April, four company laptops were stolen, two of them with sensitive information.   The sensitive information included names, addresses, and credit card numbers.  Expiration dates, pin numbers, passwords, codes and other sensitive data were not included (as they shouldn’t have, since it would run counter to PCI-DSS rules, which states such information should not be stored, including credit card numbers).  The letter mentions the laptops had password‑protection, but there is no mention of any kind of encryption, be it hard drive encryption or file encryption.   Because the los

Peter Gabriel shows, albeit indirectly and unwittingly, why one needs full disk encryption if data security is the ultimate objective.  Gabriel’s servers that powered his website—hosted at a data center—were stolen.  This affects more than a website with a litany of Gabriel’s accomplishments.  I’ve never been to the site before, and it’s not operating at 100%, obviously, but a look at the temporary stand‑in makes it apparent the stolen servers were at the center for getting all things Gabriel‑related, including the sale of music and concert tickets.   Break-ins into data centers are nothing new.  I’ve heard the entire gamut, from people strolling in while waving at the guard (and the guard waving back, which is why I dropped the word “security

Banking giant HSBC is in the news again.  This time, the bank has lost a computer server from the Kwun Tong branch, located in Hong Kong.  Sometimes, having a huge international footprint just means having more problems.  If you’ll recall, HSBC had announced last month that they had a data breach in the UK, when a disk with details of 370,000 customers went missing.  The lost server contained the data of 159,000 customers, and unlike the incident with the disk, customers should be worried about this particular incident.  According to The Standard, a Hong Kong publication, the data in the lost server contains names, account numbers, and transaction records.  The last could be used to zero-in on high value customers and attempt some kind of spear‑phishing t

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An employee for Northern Trust Bank was caught selling electronic office equipment on eBay, as well as putting them up at pawnshops and selling them to his own colleagues at the bank.  The thefts occurred between May 2005 and Nov 2006, when he was arrested.  Most of the equipment that was stolen consisted of computers and peripherals, such as laptops, desktops, LCD monitors, and printers.  Bank management became aware of the thefts when 12 laptop computers went missing.  An investigation following the theft of the laptops revealed the true extent of the misdeeds.  The above story highlights two things to keep in mind when practicing data security.  First, size does not matter when theft is the purpose; anything is fair game.  A lot of people seem to for

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It is being reported that the US Department of State is missing hundreds of laptops, perhaps thousands of them.  The Department of State is in charge of conducting diplomacy.  In case anyone doubts how important secrecy is for this particular department, the Anti‑Terrorism Assistance Program falls under its umbrella, according to the article at cqpolitics.com.  Obviously, this particular department needs to especially ensure they’ve got adequate data security.   An internal audit has found that this is not necessarily the case, though.  For example, as many as 400 laptops are missing from the Anti‑Terrorism Assistance Program alone.  It is being pointed out, however, that in this case the missing laptops are not necessarily lost or stolen.  The audi