Information Protection and Security

Industry association proposes contactless chip cards, says end-to-end encryption isn't enough.

This type of attack which is resilient against a full hard drive wipe is considered the holy grail of computer hacking because the hardware has been infected.  Once the Apple keyboard (USB or BlueTooth) is infected, it is extremely difficult to detect and the only practical way to get rid of the infection is to throw away the keyboard.
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Apple claims that hundreds of thousands of iPhones are being used by corporations and government agencies. What it won’t tell you is that the supposedly enterprise-friendly encryption included with the iPhone 3GS is so weak it can be cracked in two minutes with a few pieces of readily available freeware.

An IBM researcher has uncovered a way to analyze data while it is still encrypted, in what could be a boon for both spam-filtering applications and cloud computing environments.
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In one of the biggest public sector procurements ever announced for secure USB sticks, BlockMaster's UK reseller Softek will install 100,000 SafeStick' drives in tandem with the SafeConsole management system over the next two years.

Departments maintaining NPPI are responsible for that information and any disclosure of it.  No departments should have faculty/staff/students storing NPPI locally (on any equipment or workstations).

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McAfee Endpoint Encryption is presently available for the Windows environment. However, other possibilities are also available.