A new ransomware strain is implementing a troubling but so far relatively rarely used technique to encrypt data in a target environment. Instead of encrypting files on endpoint systems like most ...

Full disk encryption is the most commonly used encryption strategy in practice today for data at rest, but does that mean it’s sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to your data? The short answer: ...

Like with any industry, the information security industry, more commonly referred to as “cybersecurity,” for all its raging debates, has rallied around a small corpus of best practices. One of the ...

Ransomware is getting even more devious with Petya, which goes after your master boot record to encrypt the whole drive. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

How much are you willing to pay to encrypt every bit of data on a notebook disk drive–without compromising performance? AT CES 2012, Singapore-based ST Electronics is showing its new DigiSafe ...

There was a time, not all that long ago, when a fully-encrypted system disk was something only for people with money to burn. You bought a special disk controller which performed hardware-based ...

If a third-party disk encryption software is incompatible with the next Windows 10 Feature Update, it may cause the upgrade to crash. Let’s take a look at a typical scenario where you can encounter ...

Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands have revealed today vulnerabilities in some solid-state drives (SSDs) that allow an attacker to bypass the disk encryption feature and access the ...

Fujitsu Computer Systems Corp. tomorrow plans to announce a petabyte-size storage array with native encryption, but some users with high security needs said they are uneasy about the possibility of ...

The latest version of the MySQL database variant has table-level encryption, courtesy of Google, but it won't guard against the most common database attacks MariaDB, the binary-compatible fork of ...