Businesses often don’t realise why encryption is important, and how they can use it to protect their data. The latest in our Practical IT series tells you what encryption is and how you can use it in your business.
Tag Archives: Encryption
Apple, Google and others urge Obama to say no to backdoors
Tech firms and cryptologists lobby the Obama administration, urging resistance to the implementation of backdoors in popular software.
Facebook opens up Internet.org but there’s no support for HTTPS
Facebook has opened the internet up to users in India and other countries but says it won’t immediately allow HTTPS.
5 online privacy and security tips for travelers
Going on holiday or traveling for businesss any time soon? Here are 5 online privacy and security tips for when you’re on the road.
Practical IT: What you need to know about email encryption
When email was invented over 40 years ago, no one thought about how to ensure the integrity of messages. Here’s what you need to know about securing email with the right kind of encryption.
The NSA wants a multi-part encryption key for ‘front door’ access to your data
As tech firms, privacy groups and citizens continue to balk at government surveillance, the NSA has come up with an interesting proposal for a multi-part encryption key.
World Backup Day – is your data safe enough?
Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups – but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!
What’s that screenshot doing on Facebook? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Facebook, ransomware and updates to updates – all in 60 seconds! Our weekly video for 21 March 2015…
Yahoo slices your password out of login process, shows off end-to-end encryption
The result of snipping out passwords: one-factor authentication. Just make sure not to lose that phone!
Stolen hard drives bring more data breach pain for US health services
The Indiana State Medical Association has warned 39,090 of its clients that their private data may be at risk of leakage, after the “random” theft of a pair of backup hard drives.
