Data loss is bad enough, but having that data fall into someone else's hands -- especially if they happen to be the wrong hands -- can be disastrous. While in an ideal we shouldn't be losing data in ...

Researchers have found flaws that can be exploited to bypass hardware decryption without a password in well known and popular SSD drives. In a new report titled "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses ...

Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. For them, it was an ethical issue. Eric said: We believe encryption is ...

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 ...

Data storage security covers a wide landscape, including legal compliance, e-discovery, user access control and the physical security of data storage media. In this article we will focus on ...

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands have announced a flaw that affects some SSDs that feature hardware-based security; the flaw could allow an attacker to completely bypass disk ...

In brief: Researchers at Radboud University have discovered flaws in some popular solid state drives (SSD) that allowed them to decrypt hardware encryption without having the password. Carlo Meijer ...

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has released three final specifications for hardware-level data encryption, and virtually all the major storage manufacturers have declared that they intend to adopt ...

Lost devices and data theft remain a major worry for enterprise IT firms. One way to protect against data loss is full-device encryption, now made easier to implement via self-encrypting hard drives ...

I was considering purchasing hard drive encryption software for our consultants' laptops in case they were lost or stolen. Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on what to look for in a good ...

Microsoft is trying to put an end to the long running trade off between full disk encryption and fast solid state storage by shifting BitLocker’s heaviest work into dedicated silicon. Instead of ...

Lee, MA and San Jose, CA: Wave Systems Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., have collaborated to give professionals on the go the ultimate in hard drive security. Along with blazing speed, ...