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Linkedin SSL vulnerability leaves accounts open to hacking  23 May 2011 
Source: The Inquirer - Posted by Anthony Pell   
AN INDEPENDENT insecurity researcher says there are multiple security vulnerabilities in the business social network Linkedin, due to the way it handles and transmits cookies over SSL.
 
Dropbox 'insecure and misleading' – crypto researcher  16 May 2011 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
Popular cloud storage service Dropbox is misleading users into thinking it is more secure than it really is, says a security researcher and academic, who has asked for the FTC to investigate.
 
The rising use of SSL raises new risks  12 May 2011 
Source: CSO Online - Posted by Dave Wreski   
As more applications turn to SSL to help keep users secure, they may also be inadvertently hampering the ability of enterprises to ensure malicious code and exploits are not slithering through network traffic from the endpoint.
 
Self-Encrypting Hard Drives Face Perception Challenge  10 May 2011 
Source: Information Week - Posted by Dave Wreski   
One-third of security professionals who handle encryption don't understand self-encrypting hard disk drives. In particular, they're unsure whether the drives are better or worse than software-based encryption for preventing tampering, managing encryption, or handling authentication keys.
 
Meet the fastest public-key algorithm few have even heard of  27 April 2011 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Here comes the fastest public-key algorithm that most people have never heard of: It's called NTRUEncrypt and this month was approved by the financial services standards body, the Accredited Standards Committee X9.
 
Self-encrypting hard disks with integrated deletion feature  18 April 2011 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Toshiba has extended its range of 2.5-inch drives with hardware data encryption – also called Self-Encrypting Drives ("SEDs") – to include models with an automatic deletion feature ("wipe"). Developed to comply with the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) Opal specification, Toshiba's series MKxx61GSYD drives encrypt all written data via AES-256 without causing performance loss.
 
The encryption keys used to secure data have become the keys to the kingdom The encryption keys used  14 April 2011 
Source: SecurityPark - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Back in the mid 70s, the use of encryption in enterprises was pretty much unheard of. Soon companies started to introduce some encryption in limited instances, such as encoders on communication lines to encrypt financial transactions.
 
How is SSL hopelessly broken? Let us count the ways  11 April 2011 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
Every year or so, a crisis or three exposes deep fractures in the system that's supposed to serve as the internet's foundation of trust. In 2008, it was the devastating weakness in SSL, or secure sockets layer, certificates issued by a subsidiary of VeriSign.
 
Why mobile data encryption doesn’t matter (as much)  07 April 2011 
Source: VentureBeat - Posted by Anthony Pell   
This discussion about enterprise mobility is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at theVentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of the day, which, if solved, can lead to much faster growth in the industry.
 
Hackers exploit chink in Web's armor  24 March 2011 
Source: CNET - Posted by Alex   
A long-known but little-discussed vulnerability in the modern Internet's design was highlighted yesterday by a report that hackers traced to Iran spoofed the encryption procedures used to secure connections to Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and other major Web sites.
 
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