It may be surprising to know how much hackers and cyber-criminals learn from data networks’ traffic. This is done through a process referred to as ‘traffic flow analysis’. While once underestimated, traffic flow analysis is now gaining attention beyond the government and...
Last year was another big year for data breaches, and not in a good way. Gemalto’s breach level index is an online record of data breach incidents and reveals over 3.7 billion records have been lost since 2013.
There may be no more important data security topic today than law enforcement’s persistent calls to weaken ‘unbreakable’ encryption (the FBI’s term for high-assurance encryption) by forcing vendors to add backdoors to their security products.
Within a commercial setting, it is the analysis of large volumes of metadata, and the insights that can be gleaned from this analysis, that is likely to be of greater concern. Ducklin does a good job here of illustrating the risks and the types of insights that can be extracted...
The last few months have revealed a litany of shocking security weaknesses in network devices that are tantamount to ‘traps for the trusting’. The sheer number of devices impacted by encryption vulnerabilities suggests all data networks contain inherent weaknesses. Whilst...
Whilst manufacturers of network equipment have promised robust data security by embedding encryption within their routers, it appears that the opposite is true. For a number of years, it has been suspected that routers do not make effective security devices because they fail to...
Last week, the new telecommunications data retention laws were in the news for all the wrong reasons. Whether you support the move toward increased digital surveillance or not, one thing is clear. The legislation has been poorly conceived and is being poorly implemented.
Last month the insurance industry's banana skin report listed data security as one of the major areas of concern for the coming year. This shouldn't come as a surprise, given the volume on sensitive data involved in financial service transactions. However, being concerned and...