Reuters is reporting that Apple reversed plans two years ago to fully encrypt iCloud data when it was met with fierce opposition from the FBI and law enforcement officials. The company had planned to ...

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A California appeals court has handed a victory to a healthcare provider in a case that involved the loss of 16,000 patient records. The ruling emphasizes the importance of encrypting files. The case ...

The key used for these kinds of symmetric encryption is called as File Encryption Key (or FEK). This FEK is in return encrypted with a public or a private key algorithm like RSA and stored with the ...

If you’ve read anything about technology in the last few years, you may have seen the term “encryption” floating around. It’s a simple concept, but the realities of its use are enormously complicated.

One of the best ways to protect your privacy is to encrypt important information on your computer. Whether you need to send personal information to someone, or simply want to make sure that no one who ...

In 2016, HIMMS conducted a study that corroborated what those of us in healthcare IT know all too well: most healthcare organizations are ill-prepared to deal with or defend against a cyberattack.

Every day, we are creating and sharing data at an astounding rate. With each email, text, tweet, tap and stream, more data is available for companies to collect and use, and without sufficient ...

Full-disk encryption (FDE) is a low-effort way to ensure that if someone were to get ahold of one of your drives while unmounted or a Mac while powered down, the contents on the drive would be ...

It’s an eye-opening statistic – 60% of online fraud is conducted via mobile device platforms. No wonder, considering all the sensitive information stored there. From bank account numbers, Social ...

Very well then. Security is not that big of an issue in this case but I was going to implement it if it was sufficently simple and fast. However given the circumstances I will just go ahead with ...

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