encryption
NIST selects winner of SHA-3 competition
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the winner of its five-year competition to select a new cryptographic hash algorithm, one of the …
New wireless APs and 2-factor authentication products from Fortinet
Fortinet announced four new wireless access points along with three new two-factor authentication products. Fortinet is introducing four new additions to its wireless access …
Pen-testing Cookie Cadger continues where Firesheep left off
When the Firesheep extension was revealed to the world in late 2010, its developer said that his main goal was to get sites to switch to full end-to-end encryption, i.e. SSL. …
Google Go programming language used for creating destructive Trojan
When Google introduced its Go programming language in 2009, they surely didn’t hope for it to be used for writing malware but, as these things go, it was a only a matter …
Botnet operators hide C&Cs in the Tor network
Over the years, botnet owners have tried out different tactics for keeping their C&C servers online, in contact with the zombie computers, and hidden from researchers and …
BEAST developers come up with new SSL/TLS attack
From the security researchers who created and demonstrated the BEAST (Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS) tool for breaking SSL/TLS encryption comes another attack that exploits …
Solving the portable data security headache
Protecting intellectual property and sensitive information is a major security concern for any business today – especially against the backdrop of workers needing to …
Sensitive data protection with A+ Folder Locker
Giant Matrix released A+ Folder Locker, its new product for sensitive data protection. Thanks to advanced encryption algorithms and multi-level security, it guarantees that …
Data protection for the cloud with ProtectV
As more data moves to private or public clouds, the number of super-users with access to an organization’s data multiplies, the risk of VMs being copied without the …
Visa to launch encryption service
Visa announced a new service, Visa Merchant Data Secure with Point-to-Point Encryption, to help acquirers and their merchants protect payment card data. Visa will make the …
Secure hardware storage encryption from SafeNet
SafeNet extends its comprehensive portfolio of data security solutions into the storage security market with StorageSecure, a NAS security solution developed in partnership …
Military-grade encryption for Android devices
AuthenTec introduced a new security offering that provides military-grade encryption to data stored on Android smartphones and tablets. MatrixDAR helps bring Android devices …