Security and Encryption

Disruptive Technology and the Future of Foreign Investment

10 Feb 2012

In exchange for access to markets, Twitter recently agreed to grant governments the power to block certain messages. This, as well as the seemingly bloodless and amicable boardroom coup resulting in the replacement of RIM’s co-CEOs, is an effect of the foreign-investment deal-breaker that nobody wants to talk about: its intersection with national security.

Database encryption demystified: Four common misconceptions

9 Feb 2012

With new attacks being publicized daily, organizations that eschew data encryption as an integral part of their security strategy risk losing almost everything.

Satellite communication encryption cracked by scientists

9 Feb 2012

Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications.