The Pirate Bay has ambitious plans to bring end-to-end encryption to all network activity, essentially blacking out a user’s traffic from deep packet inspection gear and other prying eyes. Interesting project, sure, and definitely ambitious, but will it work? We doubt it, at least in the near term, and here’s why. NewTeeVee has a nice [...]

nCipher announced its nShield and netHSM key management solutions are now integrated with Transparent Data Encryption, part of Oracle Database 11g Advanced Security option. The combination of Oracle T…
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Identify theft and the value of protecting personal data is on people’s minds more today than it ever has been. The fact that laptops are small, relatively lightweight and unbelievably easy to steal makes that even more of a problem, coupled with the fact that you can get 500GB of storage into a 2.5? portable [...]

Domino’s Pizza is to use Voltage Security’s Secure-mail encryption package to protect internal and external company e-mails.The move is part of a corporate-wide data loss prevention initiative to avoid accidental loss of private or proprietary information, said Karl Anderson, network security manager for the pizza maker. “We realised that e-mails being sent to partners and [...]

As the file-sharing battlefield begins to simmer, BitTorrent indexing sites are armoring up with SSL encryption, hoping to ward off the oncoming battle with ISPs and the litany of copyright enforcement agents. isoHunt and The Pirate Bay, two of the largest and most popular BitTorrent sites, have recently incorporated encryption in hopes of offering their [...]

Anti-virus vendor Kaspersky has released StopGpcode2 ? a tool which may be able to recover most of the data encrypted by the GPcode.ak trojan. According to the developers, the Windows program requires pairs of encrypted files and unencrypted copies of the same files ? the more the merrier. These may be obtainable from backups or [...]

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In an effort to combat a new law that would allow Swedish officials to log and search all incoming and outbound traffic, The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site and says more changes are in store for the popular BitTorrent tracker.
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Encryption and file-sharing technology have a long history together. Usenet servers, LimeWire, uTorrent, and many other applications and protocols have taken advantage of encryption technology to help give the end user an additional layer of security. In response to Sweden’s new wiretapping law, The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde has announced the tracker?s intention to offer [...]

StoneFly today introduced SAN-based encryption capabilities that give enterprise customers another layer of protection in combating damaging internal and external security breaches while also simplify…
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RSA announced new capabilities in their Data Security System’s encryption and key management suite which are designed to secure sensitive data in file systems. RSA File Security Manager 2.2 is de…
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Two NHS trusts have lost unencrypted laptops containing 31,000 patient records. A laptop containing 11,000 patient records was stolen from a GP’s home in Wolverhampton. And St George?s Hospital in London has admitted that six laptops were stolen from its filing cabinets at the start of the month, containing the records of 20,000 patients.Both data [...]