eCrypt Attends pii2010 Privacy Conference

eCrypt (along with a Privacy Now TV crew) made the trek to Seattle to attend pii2010, a digital privacy, identity and innovation conference. It was a great experience with many privacy and security experts – including representatives from Google, Intel and PayPal – in attendance from all over North America. The main themes of the [...]

Why BlackBerry service went dark in the Middle East.

Newswires are ablaze with stories about privacy, Research in Motion, and how the two fit together in the political climate of the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The root of the turmoil stems with the governments and royalty of these nations and their access to the data transmitted to RIM’s BlackBerry mobile communications platform. The [...]

“The lesson of the Twitter hack. Passwords are pitiful.”

Some people say that because of innovations in information security, password protection is yesterday’s news, but I would argue that it is still our first line of defense.  Think about it: many encryption solutions require the use of a password or PIN to encrypt/decrypt items; you have to enter a password to access your email [...]

The Truth About Cell Phone “Security”

As you may or may not have heard GSM technology isn’t secure, that is, the outdated algorithms still used today have been broken.  In fact, bigger brother 3G has been compromised also.  So what does this mean?  Your cell phone calls are not private. But where they ever really?  Authorities have always had the capability [...]

Cyber Crime and Why You Could Be Next

Unless you’ve had a personal experience with hacking or identity theft, it can be difficult to realize the reality and gravity of the problem.  Because the threat is intangible – we can’t ‘see’ it or ‘touch’ it – it’s easy to disregard as one of those things that “happens to celebrities, but won’t happen to [...]

Are you revealing your SSN on Facebook?

Have where you were born and your birthday on Facebook? Well you might be giving hackers all the info they need to guess your SSN, thanks to the US government. Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can reverse engineer a person’s Social Security number using, ironically, nothing more than data from publicly [...]