Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Brute-force attacks are fairly simple to understand, but difficult to protect against. Encryption is math, and as computers become faster at math, they become faster at trying all the solutions and seeing which one fits.
These attacks can be used against any type of encryption, with varying degrees of success. Brute-force attacks ...
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Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
As individuals and organizations digitize more data, they become more susceptible to major data breaches. Though convenient, inexpensive USB flash memory sticks and other portable storage devices certainly don't help the cause, because workers use them transport databases and other confidential information. On top of the real danger of misused ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Need to send sensitive information through email? Normal email messages can be intercepted or hacked before reaching the recipient. However, you can use a free extension for Google Chrome, called SafeGmail, that allows you to send encrypted emails to anyone.
Messages are encrypted and decrypted within the browser, so your message ...
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Friday, November 23rd, 2012
A Web security policy mechanism that promises to make HTTPS-enabled websites more resilient to various types of attacks has been approved and released as an Internet standard -- but despite support from some high-profile websites, adoption elsewhere is still low.
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) allows websites to declare themselves accessible ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2012
Dropbox is a hugely popular cloud storage service beloved by many. Unfortunately, it’s had a history of security problems, ranging from compromised accounts to once allowing access to every Dropbox account without requiring a password for several hours. If you’re using Dropbox, there are a variety of ways you ...
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