Is It Possible To Have Email Security Without OpenPGP/S-MIME?
To receive email, it requires that a system is configured to reach the mail server and manually ask it for the delivery of stored emails (Post Office Protocol). However,...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Data Encryption and its Relevance
Data Encryption Definition Defining data encryption is rather simple; it’s all about translating data into another form, basically codes in such a way that it can be accessed only...
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Massive Data Breach Hit Caribou Coffee, All Customers Transacted From Aug 28 to Dec 3 Affected
Caribou Coffee, a U.S. based Coffeehouse chain with 603 branches has made a public disclosure that thousands of their customer records from at least 219 branches in Minnesota were...
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Ethical Hacking Key to Data Security
Ethical hackers have a very important role to play as regards data security; they make up the first line of defense against cybercrime. Thus, in the realm of cybersecurity,...
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NUI Galway’s Problem: Misplaced USB Flash Drive Containing Unencrypted Student Records
USB Flash Drive is a blessing to end-users, data files that we used to cram in 1.44MB floppy disks, burn in CD-Rs and saved in proprietary disk format Iomega...
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Seven Steps to Data Loss Prevention
It is not that only large enterprise should worry about Data Loss Prevention because now even small companies of all sizes are the target for hackers. Having a DLP...
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Survey Says: Bad PR Due to Data Breach News, Very Bad for Businesses
Companies hate bad PR; many of them hire external PR firms in order to re-engage their respective communities and target markets in order to lessen if not cancel the...
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FIFA Preps for Next Wave of Bad Press after New Data Breach
If you’re in the market for juicy football news, you may well be flooded with some scandalous bits as FIFA recently announced that their organization was again a victim...
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Digital Forensic Tools Availability in the Nutshell
Digital forensics has risen in importance for at least the last two decades, it is the byproduct of the growth of knowledge due to massive Internet penetration in the...
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Defense Shipbuilder Austal Suffers Cybersecurity Breach
Austal, the Defense shipbuilder based in Western Australia has been hit with a data breach and extortion attempt. The Guardian reports, “Defence shipbuilder Austal’s Australian business has been hit...
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