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Seagate Technology has named the first manufacturer to sell laptops with its new built-in hard drive encryption technology.
The chief executive of PGP, Phillip Dunkelberger, has hinted the company will release a secure instant messaging (IM) application following its re-launch of the brand in June last year.
Encrypted messages with long names could threaten users of the program Pretty Good Privacy and allow an attacker to take over their system, a security company says.
PGP's new email-security product encrypts and signs emails without any client or server software.
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The chief executive of PGP, Phillip Dunkelberger, has hinted the company will release a secure instant messaging (IM) application following its re-launch of the brand in June last year.
Security expert Bruce Schneier looks at how cryptography has blossomed from a secretive NSA technology to a global public tool.
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Phil Zimmermann, the creator of the Pretty Good Privacy encryption tool, says that widespread surveillance is leading us into an Orwellian future.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a respected encryption mechanism for protecting email correspondence. PGPi is available for free, so the main reason for purchasing PGP Personal Security 7.03 would be to obtain the extra features that McAfee provides.
Commentary: Whether you work at home full-time or only occasionally, you need to make sure your systems and data are protected. So what is the best software for preventing a business-threatening disaster?
Steganos Security Suite's excellent collection of heavy-duty encryption and Internet cleanup tools is best suited to small business and corporations.
Like much of the world, I'm a big fan of instant-messaging programs. But I'm not a fan of snoopers listening in on my conversations. I bet that doesn't sound attractive to you, either.
It seems Microsoft is paying more attention to security these days. And while Office XP is more secure than its predecessors, it offers some of the same old security options we've seen before, packaged as though they were new. Even so, Microsoft appears to be heading in the right direction.
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