A long, long time ago—in the early 90s—I first worked as a DBA with responsibility for enterprise databases. I will never forget how surprised and disappointed I was to discover that the data in the ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

As the first major tech company to comply with government demands for encrypted data, Microsoft sets a dangerous precedent. Earlier this year, the FBI served Microsoft with a search warrant requesting ...

There’s a new, more secure way to encrypt files in Windows 11, but it’s only an option for building secure applications, not a replacement for BitLocker. Windows 10 already has two flavours of ...

Fortanix Inc., a leader in data-first cybersecurity and pioneer of Confidential Computing, is debuting an expansion of Key Insight, the solution for proactively discovering, assessing, and remediating ...

Signal is finally tightening its desktop client’s security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018. As reported by ...

Critics of cloud services often point—with a bit of finger-wagging—at the fact that cloud-stored data is theoretically vulnerable to being stolen by bad guys and handed over in response to government ...

In my blog “The Methods of Memory Encryption to Protect Data in Use,” I discussed how the XTS/XEX mode of encryption was the appropriate choice for protecting data stored in and accessed from memory, ...

A key-handling defect in the ransomware can permanently lock files by discarding private encryption keys, leaving affected organizations unable to recover data even if a ransom is paid. A newly ...