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Posts Tagged ‘email security’
Monday, March 16th, 2009
 Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is an accepted, reliable and necessary tool across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications have become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include:
- Interacting with web-savvy patients;
- Real time authorizations for medical services;
- Transcribing, accessing and storing health records;
- Appointment scheduling; and
- Submitting claims to health plan payers for payment of the services provided.
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Tags: access control, addressable, audit controls, authentication, covered entities, email security, email security rule, encryption, ePHI, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, heathhealthcare, hipaa, integrity, phi, privacy, protected health information
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: HIPAA, TechNotes
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Friday, March 13th, 2009
Section 1: Introduction to Email Security
 You may already know that email is insecure; however, it may surprise you to learn just how insecure it really is. For example, did you know that messages which you thought were deleted years ago may be sitting on servers half-way around the world? Or that your messages can be read and modified in transit, even before they reach their destination? Or even that the username and password that you use to login to your email servers can be stolen and used by hackers?
This article is designed to teach you about how email really works, what the real security issues are, what solutions exist, and how you can avoid security risks.
Information Security and integrity are becoming more important as we use email for personal communication and business. While you are reading this article imagine how security problems can affect your business or personal life…. if they have not already.
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Tags: asymmetric encryption, eavesdropping, email security, false messages, http, identity theft, imap, invasion of privacy, message modification, Message Replay, opportunistic TLS, pgp, pop, repudiation, s/mime, Simple Mail Transport Protocol, smtp, SMTP relaying, smtp server, ssl, ssl certificate, symmetric encryption, tls, Unprotected Backups
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Sunday, March 8th, 2009
 Email security issues and technologies are extremely complicated; however, here we intend to make the salient issues and solutions clearly understandable to all readers.
You may already know that email is not a perfectly secure communication medium; however, it might surprise you to learn just how inherently insecure email can be. Messages thought deleted can still exist in backup folders on remote servers years after being sent. Hackers can read and modify messages in transit, use your usernames and passwords to login to your online services, and steal your identity and critical information!
As the amount of crucial business conducted via email increases, so does the amount of Spam, viruses, hacking, fraud, and other malicious activity. Unless precautions are taken, email can leave you and your business open to escalating security and privacy risks. What are these risks?
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Tags: anonymous, eavesdropping, email bombs, email security, email threats, privacy, spam, viruses, worms
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
 Do you feel secure? If so, you must be a good corporate citizen. You are on time every day, contribute effectively and courteously in meetings, and your appearance is impeccable. You could be a contender as Trump’s next Apprentice. Of course, no one knows that you’re more like Andrew Dice Clay when you email your co-workers and friends. Or do they???
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Tags: backups, big brother, eavesdropping, email security, encryption, false messages, identity theft, invasion of privacy, message modification, privacy policy, repudiation
Posted in LuxSci Insider, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
 Our sales staff has been asked this question countless times. It is a natural assumption that because SSL and TLS encryption of email (and web sites) requires use of an "SSL certificate", that one must buy an SSL certificate in order to use such a service. Fortunately, the answer is always
You do not need to buy your own SSL certificate to use secure email.
We’ll explain why.
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Tags: client certificate, email security, encryption, secure email, ssl, ssl certificate, ssl email, tls
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Every organization is different in the way that it communicates internally and with its vendors and customers and in the kinds of information that it sends over the Internet. LuxSci has developed a simple free questionaire that will help us to assess your security and privacy needs and to provide recommendations to you as to the best ways to meet them.
See our: Email Security Analysis Survey
Tags: email security, hipaa, privacy, secure email, survey
Posted in Business Solutions
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Security researches will be outlining attacks that can break the WPA wirless security protection of wireless networks this week at the PacSec conference in Tokyo. Erik Tews and Martin Beck will discuss how networks protected by TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol — originally called WEP2) are vulnerable to attackers being able to inject small amounts of traffic into the encrypted data stream. This can allow attackers to:
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Tags: aes, email security, hotspot, secure email, ssl, tls, wep, wireless, wpa
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
SSL versus TLS
TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications in scenarios where that data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking your email (How does the Secure Socket Layer work?). The terms SSL and TLS are often used interchangeably or in conjunction with each other (TLS/SSL), but one is in fact the predecessor of the other — SSL 3.0 served as the basis for TLS 1.0 which, as a result, is sometimes referred to as SSL 3.1. With this said though, is there actually a difference between the two?
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Tags: email security, secure email, secure socket layer, security, ssl, ssl vs tls, tls, tls vs ssl, transport layer
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
LuxSci has been approached by many people asking for VPN (Virtual Private Network) services. When we ask them why, they indicate that they use wireless hotspots (like at Starbucks and other public places) that are insecure and untrusted and they want to be sure that their email is secure and encrypted there.
This is a very legitimate concern. Wireless hotspots are serious danger zones; we have seen many cases of people who have carelessly used insecure connections to email and had their login usernames and passwords stolen in such places. This can lead to identity theft, the leaking of sensitive company or personal information, and other serious problems. Anyone using public wireless hotspots or other untrusted networks for email and other activities that involve personal information need to take care that the information sent to and from their computers is protected. If the transmission of your sensitive information is protected, then you have nothing to worry about and hotspots can be great places to work.
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Tags: eavesdropping, email security, hotspot, imap, pop, secure email, smtp, ssl, tls, vpn, webmail, wireless
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
LuxSci’s SecureLine end-to-end email encryption service now allows you to set up rules to automatically encrypt only certain messages based on keywords, phrases, and regular expressions that appear within the content.
Tags: content, email security, encryption, outbound, sending
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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