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Think back to the height of the Cold War. As the US and the Soviet Union amassed huge stockpiles of weapons, the real battle was waged with information. Who was spying on whom, and what exactly were ...

Organizations looking to implement encryption should consider taking a unified approach, says Karen Scarfone, who coauthored NIST's encryption guidance. "[I'm] not saying that the same tool needs to ...

Security researchers at WithSecure, previously F-Secure Business, found that it is possible to partially or fully infer the contents of encrypted messages sent through Microsoft Office 365 due to the ...

The PCI Security Standards Council now requires better authentication, encryption and penetration testing by companies that accept consumer payments, improvements lauded by security experts. “There ...