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‘Encryption’ Stories

Dropbox drops the ball, leaves all encrypted user accounts open to any user with no password

Shane McGlaun, Jun 21st 2011 Discuss [0]

Anyone that is in the tech world knows that there is often more than a little apprehension when an update to a service is announced or applied. Often things come off without a hitch, but every now and again an epic fail surfaces and the upgrade turns out to be more of a downgrade. Dropbox is a service that allows users to put files in for sharing that are encrypted and secure on the server and can only be accessed by people that have the user name and password. Read The Full Story

Samsung Promises Highest Possible Level of Protection against Data Loss with Self-Encrypted SSD

Chris Burns, Nov 23rd 2010 Discuss [0]

Samsung's got a new Solid State Drive and they want you to take it for a spin. Samsung says it has the only Solid State Drive to feature Goverment-Grade AES 256-bit Encryption for the ultimate in security for your awesome files and such. This hardware encryption is always on, the data encryption and user authentication being performed "in the high security of the drive controller" instead of where it'd normally be stored, in the software. Software encryption works using the main CPU of the computer and stores info in the relatively insecure memory of the system, while SEDs (self-encrypting drives) encrypt at the speed of the interface making no impact on performance in the protected hardware of the SSD. Read The Full Story

Apricorn cranks Aegis Padlock HDD up to 750GB

Shane McGlaun, Oct 28th 2010 Discuss [2]

Apricorn has been offering its Aegis Padlock portable HDD for a while now. The drive is notable for the keypad on the front that secures the drive preventing access to the drive unless the correct PIN is typed in. The company has announced a new version of the drive that is the highest capacity encrypted HDD on the market. Read The Full Story

Kanguru whips out Defender Elite remotely manageable flash drive with hardware encryption

Shane McGlaun, Mar 11th 2010 Discuss [0]

Data security is at the front of many minds in the business world. With the ease that data can be copied to and from portable devices today and the fact that these devices are easily lost or stolen means sensitive data has to be protected. Kanguru has a new flash drive that has achieved the FIPS 140-2 certification for data security called the Kanguru Defender Elite. Read The Full Story

KingCall microSD card encrypts voice and text for VoIP

Shane McGlaun, Mar 1st 2010 Discuss [0]

In December of 2009 we heard that the encryption used for GSM voice calls had been hacked. Mobile carriers have a more secure GSM algorithm they can use to secure calls and they maintain that carriers using the hacked GSM encryption are still more secure than we might think. If you are the sort that wants really secure communications GO-Trust has announced the KingCall microSD card. Read The Full Story

Onix International offers EncryptStick for Mac and Windows

Shane McGlaun, Feb 10th 2010 Discuss [0]

There are lots of people out there who have data on their computer that they don't want unauthorized people accessing. Whatever you need to keep safe from your collection of 80's music to personal information like medical records encryption is the way to go. Onix International has announced that the latest EncryptStick Version 4.1 flash drive is now available. Read The Full Story

Kingston debuts ultra-secure DataTraveler 5000 flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Jan 28th 2010 Discuss [0]

Not too long ago Kingston had to recall some of its secure flash drives because a flaw was found in the encryption used that allowed the security protocols to be bypassed. Kingston wasn't the only flash drive maker that had to recall secure drives because of the flaw. Today Kingston has unveiled a new flash drive that uses hardware approved by the DoD for the transportation of classified documents. Read The Full Story

MXI Security unveils Stealth Bio MXP encrypted flash drive

Shane McGlaun, Jan 12th 2010 Discuss [0]

There has been a lot of news over the last week or so about a flaw in supposedly encrypted flash drives and storage devices that would allow a nefarious user to bypass the security of a drive. This has left some people that are security conscious looking for a new flash drive and MXI Security has a new one that may do the trick. Read The Full Story

Encryption for GSM voice calls cracked

Shane McGlaun, Dec 29th 2009 Discuss [1]

Encryption protects much of our data around the world. Our credit card transactions are encrypted, online medical records are encrypted, online banking transaction are encrypted along with all sorts of other data. When that encryption fails, our information can be accessed by nefarious users. Read The Full Story

Lexar unveils enterprise-class JumpDrive Safe S3000 FIPS validated USB drive

Shane McGlaun, Oct 8th 2009 Discuss [0]

Keeping the data we put on flash drives and other external storage solutions safe is a concern for many of us. In the world of government and business keeping data safe is an even bigger concern. Lost government flash drives packed with personal data on citizens have been in the news before and presents a big issues for Americans. Lexar has announced a new flash drive that is called the JumpDrive Safe S3000 FIPS to protect sensitive data for enterprise and government workers. Read The Full Story