Coupled with a security chip to encrypt data, it promises to transform a wide range of consumer experiences from simple ticketing to the Holy Grail of replacing your cash and payment cards with just your smartphone.
It sought to encrypt data traffic between the laptop and the access point, but did so in a way that was later found to be so inadequate that someone with relatively little technical knowledge could break the encryption scheme and eavesdrop on traffic.
Too much credit card theft was finally hurting them and they now require anyone who handles credit card information to encrypt that data.
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For example, you may choose to encrypt the data so if it moves away from the data center to the cloud, you have an extra layer of security.
Google must create a video for YouTube explaining how people can easily encrypt their data on their wireless networks and run a daily online ad promoting it for two years.
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To encrypt its data, the pen uses an algorithm called Rijndael, which the National Institute for Standards and Technology is planning to use as the Advanced Encryption Standard, which will replace the existing Data Encryption Standard (DES), which is currently being phased out of use.
Storing all its data in four centralized centers also allows the law firm to encrypt and better secure its data, as well as recover it in an emergency.
As a safety measure, corporations want to have a way to decrypt data that their employees encrypt, Jones notes.
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So Appsense has written an application called Data Locker which lets firms encrypt information in Dropbox.
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On 27 April, a lawsuit was filed in California on behalf of Alabama resident Kristopher Johns, accusing Sony of not taking "reasonable care to protect, encrypt, and secure the private and sensitive data of its users".
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The new site's owners - who identify themselves as both Anonymous and the People's Liberation Front - say the service will not record connection logs and will encrypt pastes to ensure there is no usable data for the authorities to seize.
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Enterprise features: Apple announced a collection of new tools to help companies encrypt their communications, wirelessly set up handsets for employees, and wipe out data on their phones remotely, among other features.
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