We often hear or read of one or other NHS trust having undergone a data breach and mostly this leads to loss and compromise of sensitive information as well as a substantial monetary penalty. Scanning through the UKs ICO news, it is not difficult to find evidence of this. The health trusts have been in […]
Estate Agents and Solicitors Continue to make the Same Security Mistakes Cybercrime is a pressing topic. BBC (amongst others) have highlighted the severity of cybercrime and how cybercrime is effecting even the average person- people who would never imagine to be targeted by such crime. Cybercrime is opportunistic and one opportunity that these criminals are […]
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A law enforcement team in the Netherlands have revealed that emails sent encrypted on BlackBerry devices can be read on the devices despite the use of the encryption technology, PGP, on BlackBerry devices. A team of forensic investigators from the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), noted that through the use of certain software, a forensic technology, […]
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14 December 2015 Today Galaxkey has released the German Windows Galaxkey version. The German addition of Galaxkey for Windows will further support our German Galaxkey users. As of today the German version will be available to download and utilise. German versions for all mobile clients will follow shortly (Please keep an eye out for this!) […]
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1 December 2015 The Toy maker VTech has suffered an extremely large data breach, occurring on 14 November, making it one of the largest consumer data breaches (fourth biggest in history). Not only is the extent of compromised customer data in the millions, estimated at nearing 5 million, but making this breach more of a […]
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London, November 13, 2015 A research institute of a premier college in London has selected Galaxkey to assist in addressing their security requirements with regards to encryption of email communications and content as well as secure file transfer. With the support and facilitation of PSTG, Galaxkey partner, the project was successfully deployed. The institute has […]
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Draft Overhaul of Surveillance Bill UK The beginning stages of the drafted changes to the UK Surveillance Bill have begun. The bill discussions began November 4th regarding a range of aspects of data surveillance, investigatory powers and security of data. There has been much discussion and mixed opinions surrounding data and the right to privacy […]
With the latest version of Galaxkey for Windows, you can send emails to recipients which can be timed out after a preset time. The functionality to set the time is available in the Galaxkey Add-in for Outlook. When you send the email to a recipient, you have the option to set the time until when […]
Criminals are intercepting emails between solicitor and client. Due to many legal firms communicating insecurely with their clients, clients are at increased fraudulent risk. This does not have to be the case. Recently a homebuyer had £330,000 stolen because their email communications with their solicitor were being intercepted and another £299,000 and these are not […]
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A recent report by David Kaye, International and Legal Protection and Anonymity, to the United Nations Human Rights Council, highlighted the necessity for encryption and the people’s entitlement to it. Presently talks have been underway amongst many governments with the intentions to enable surveillance of communications, via enforcing the creation of backdoors into encryption solutions, […]
July last year the Data Retention and Investigatory Act, which enables Britain’s intelligent agencies to collect people’s communications data (phone and internet), took only three days to be made official, a process that under different circumstances may take weeks or even months to achieve. The fast-tracked legislation was accomplished within three days, as a quick […]
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There has been much talk, debate and speculation, globally, regarding the enforcement and requirement for back door creation for encryption technologies recently. The Vice President, Andrus Ansip, of the European Commission has stated that there are no plans to necessitate back doors in communications encryption in Europe. Reasoning behind this includes, to avoid potential misuse […]
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