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Kingston Unveils its New IronKey Touch-Screen Hardware-Encrypted External SSDs
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology, has announced the release of the newest addition to its encrypted lineup, IronKey Vault Privacy 80 External SSD (VP80ES). This marks Kingston’s first innovative OS-independent external SSD with touch-screen and hardware encryption for data protection. Using Kingston IronKey VP80ES is as…
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Ransomware Groups are at War With their Malware’s Creators!
Ransomware is a rather odious piece of malware that, once infected on your system, looks to encrypt all of your files and charge you for the privilege of getting them back. Payments are, of course, often requested in Bitcoin due to the inability for it to be tracked. The bottom…
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NCIX Database Servers Sold at Craigslist Without Being Wiped
Millions of Canadian and American Consumers at Risk Canadian retailer NCIX filed for bankruptcy and closed 10 months ago. They were the premiere PC hardware retail store in Canada and even did a sizable business on the other side of the border. However, as Travis Doering of Privacy Fly found…
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iStorage datAshur PRO 64GB Encrypted USB Flash Drive Review
Introduction iStorage datAshur PRO Encrypted USB Flash Drive Recently, I had a close look at iStorage’s diskAshur2 portable HDD and it was a joy. I expect that feeling to continue today where I will be testing the iStorage datAshur PRO encrypted flash drive (product link). It has a lot of…
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The Evolving Threat of Ransomware and How it Works
With Ransomware on the increase, we look to help explain what Ransomware is and what you can do to avoid becoming its next victim in a significantly growing volume of those affected. Whilst some can be a mild irritant as we reported in an article last week, the vast majority of…
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Snowden’s Favourite Encrypted E-Mail Service Returns
Lavabit, the encrypted e-mail service that was favoured by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden before it closed down, has returned after three years in the wilderness. Back in 2013, Lavabit founder Ladar Levison closed the service rather than hand over its encryption keys to the FBI – which was investigating Snowden…
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Open Whisper Systems Denies WhatsApp Backdoor
Earlier this week, The Guardian reported that Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp included a backdoor that allowed its employees to read users’ messages. The accusation, based on research by Tobias Belter, alleged that offline users could have their messages accessed through a newly-generated authentication key. Now, Open Whisper Systems, designer…
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WhatsApp Built Backdoor into its Encryption
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned instant messaging app, features a security backdoor that allows the company to intercept and decrypt private messages sent through the platform, in flagrant contradiction of its previous stance that it employed end-to-end encryption. While WhatsApp uses encryption developed by Open Whisper Systems, the company behind end-to-end encryption…
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UK Police Deems HTTPS Use an Act of Terrorism
A man arrested by UK police for engaging in terrorist activities has been charged with publishing his blog using the HTTPS protocol. Samata Ullah, 33, from Cardiff, was arrested and charged with six terrorism offences related to his blog, which purportedly contained instructions on how to use guided missiles and…
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Crucial MX300 2TB 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Today I got the largest solid state drive in my test lab that I yet had the pleasure to test, at least when it comes to capacity. The physical size of the Crucial MX300 is still just the 2.5-inch that we’re used to from SATA3 drives and that is the…
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QNAP Partners with Golden Frog for VyprVPN Support
Security is an ever growing concern for people and a VPN service is a great way to add another layer of security. QNAP has now entered a partnership with VyprVPN to give their users more choices in that regards and a new app has been made available in the Beta…
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Europol Wants to Track and Handle Ransomware
When it comes to viruses and malware, ransomware is one of the nastier versions. Taking people’s prized memories and work with approaching deadlines, the ransomware often locks these and the entire operating system behind a layer of encryption that makes it nearly impossible to get without paying the fee that…
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Blackberry is “Disturbed” by Apple’s Encryption Policy
Companies are often critical of one another when their policies are involved. With privacy and encryption sitting atop everyone’s minds with recent news that the Blackberry boss has come out as more than a little “disturbed” regarding Apples latest move to encrypt everything. With the encryption policy in place to increase the number…
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Russian ISP’s Will Give Everything to the Government
When it comes to privacy and security, governments around the world are having to deal with the ever-increasing threat of terrorism and dangers facing the world on a daily basis. As each government looks to combat the danger, people are becoming more and more aware of the threat to their…
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Apple Decrypts iOS Kernel for All to See
When it comes to security there are two contrasting opinions on how to go about it, firstly you let users see your code and hope that more will try to fix the problems and tell you about them than will abuse them. The second option is to hide your software,…
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