Jimmy Wales sat down with VentureBeat to chat about his concern about censorship and state-sponsored attacks.
Mega, the file sharing and storing company from Kim Dotcom, promises to protect your files through encryption, but security researchers believe it may be more problematic than it seems.
Skype calls use 256-bit advanced encryption by default, but that's not secure enough for some people. So a prof at the Warsaw University of Technology has created a way to communicate even more privately on Skype -- by using silence.
If someone is trying to break into your enterprise, it's likely because they want your data. Companies are calling for cloud encryption, and Andreessen-Horowitz is joining the chorus by investing $30 million into cloud encryption company CipherCloud.
Researchers say that poor data encryption by Android apps can expose user data to theft, but the problem may be larger than just Android.
[ Note: I've done a follow-up interview with Wickr. See that here. ]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve always wanted “secure, military-grade communications.” Not that I want to do anything mind-bogglingly stupid, Anthony Wiener-style, or that I’m planning …
Simply browsing the web can open you up to a ton of malware or privacy risks. And let’s not even get started on the dangers of public Wi-Fi.
With 60 million downloads and more than 100 million monthly user sessions, …
Cyber-Ark, a security services company that manages and protects highly sensitive information, announced Wednesday that it has received a new $40 million round of funding. The round was led by Goldman Sachs and Jerusalem Venture Partners.
Cyber-Ark protects important and …
Activision’s troubled gaming service, Call of Duty Elite, has been sending out password reminders to its users in plain text.
Activision either stores player passwords on its servers in plain text format, or in some retrievable version, which makes the …
As any security expert will tell you, all security systems can be cracked. The issue is more whether the value of the information revealed justifies the effort required to do so.
Russian security company Elcomsoft just demonstrated that it can …
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Editor’s note: This discussion about enterprise and mobility is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at theVentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of …
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This discussion about enterprise mobility is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at theVentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of the day, …
