Disk encryption
Data and the Cat-and-Mouse Game of Security
Security has always been a cat-and-mouse game. Hackers find a way to breach security. Security teams fix the holes and implement new controls. Then bad actors find a way to circumvent those ...
Cigent Technology Extends Firmware to Secure SSDs
Cigent Technology today launched Cigent Data Defense, an offering that combines existing multifactor authentication and encryption capabilities to secure sensitive data residing on solid-state drives (SSDs). Cigent Data Defense is based on ...
PA Supreme Court Rules Defendant Need Not Decrypt Drive
One of the perennial issues facing courts is the extent to which the government can compel an individual to decrypt the contents of a file, a computer or a server. Jumping into ...
Researchers crack disk encryption in popular Samsung and Crucial SSDs
Researchers at Netherlands-based Radboud University, which is active in almost all scientific fields, have discovered grave security flaws in several popular solid-state drives (SSD) that promise full disk encryption. In a nutshell, ...