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Encryption Back Doors in Europe, Not Yet Part of the Plans

Posted on 28/05/2015

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 […]

Data Breaches on the Rise with Costly Consequences to Enterprises

Posted on 14/05/2015

Recent research suggests that impact of data breaches on Enterprises is on the rise and will reach aftermaths in a region of £1.3 trillion, across the globe, by 2019. Cybercrime is becoming more sophisticated and planned, with fewer chance attacks occurring. The utilisation of specifically developed cybercrime products with premeditated purpose in mind is also […]

Demand for Backdoors into Encryption Solutions is not the Answer

Posted on 05/05/2015

Governments worldwide are demanding access to encrypted data. Both the US and UK Governments seen in the news recently, are jointly eager to ban effective cryptographic tools. Previous aims to assist the public in securing their devices are now no longer deemed necessary by FBI. Previously published sensible FBI advice for the US public, advising […]

Cloud Data Sovereignty and Collaboration only Possible through Sharing Data Securely

Posted on 27/04/2015

Introduction How do we guarantee that our data remains within the jurisdiction we choose and remains governed by the laws that we are knowledgeable of, during all stages of cloud compute? What does jurisdiction mean to everyone involved in the cloud compute process and how can we encourage data sovereignty when computing in the cloud? […]

Backdoors for Spying and Encryption Keys for all…

Posted on 09/03/2015

Multiple governments have been eagerly trying to push for tech companies to build backdoors into their systems for some time now, for easy government access, and to hand over encryption keys freely…all in aid of the ‘fight against terrorism’ (so they say). a number of governments have had their hand at it and now China […]

Dropbox Hacked Again, Compromising Millions of Users Personal Data

Posted on 14/10/2014

Millions (nearing 7 million) Dropbox accounts have been hacked and hundreds of passwords have been leaked on an anonymous information sharing site Pastebin. Dropbox have been quick to deny the security breach and have responded to the incident as follows. Dropbox has responded to the allegation stating that the usernames and passwords were stolen from […]

Improving Cloud Controls and Best Practice

Posted on 16/09/2014

Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organisations aimed at promoting the use of best practice in the cloud, has released the new updated controls for cloud computing together with the updated Consensus Assessments Initiative Questionnaire (the CCM and CAIQ v3.01). When used in conjunction these guidelines aim to provide further cloud transparency and assist in filling […]

Data Breach at Isle of Scilly Council Highlights the Need for Encryption

Posted on 12/09/2014

The ICO have uncovered that the data protection policies at the Council of the Isle of Scilly are not adequate. Two breaches have recently occurred where personal data has been compromised. The two incidents occurred in 2013: June last year an attachment accidently sent with an email revealed personal data. In September last year, personal […]

Documents Show Evidence of a Close Relationship between Microsoft and the NSA

Posted on 16/05/2014

New documents have once again brought to light the relationship the NSA has with Microsoft and how they use our data collected from Skype, Outlook.com and OneDrive. Contradictory to Microsoft’s previous declarations that they will only share user information with the government when required by law, the documents show another side to the story. A […]

Health Care Outlets Heavily Fined after 6800 Patient Records are Leaked

Posted on 14/05/2014

With only a personal server maintaining the privacy of records, a mistake by a physician, when he mistakenly switched it off, has led to the 6800 patient’s records being leaked on the internet. The data breach has cost the health care consortium a total of $4.8 million and places thousands of patient’s personal data at […]

Apple Misleadingly Claims Encryption of Email Attachments for Devices

Posted on 02/05/2014

A researcher in Germany has discovered that email attachments for POP, IMAP and ActiveSync accounts are not encrypted when stored on certain Apple devices, iPhone 4, iPhone 5s and iPad 2. Leaving email attachments visible on the firmware iOS 7.04, 7.1 and 7.1.1. Attachments on the iPhone 4s, 5s and 5c running the latest iOS […]

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