Posts Tagged ‘encrypted’
Friday, April 6th, 2012
 LuxSci’s Blog and File/Document WebAides have a great feature to optionally encrypt individual entries:
- The File and Blog entry data is PGP-encrypted “at rest” (while stored on the servers).
- Only your specified recipients (users or groups of users) can decrypt the data (even LuxSci staff cannot decrypt the data unless you give us your passwords).
- Ideal for HIPAA or the storage of other very sensitive data.
While encrypted entries have been available for many years, access to the encrypted data via LuxSci’s Mobile Site is new. Users can now login from their mobile device to our fast and slick mobile portal and unlock this data, view the secure content, and download decrypted files.
You no longer have to be separated from your sensitive data, just because all you have on you is your phone!
The Mobile Site will soon be expanded to enable editing and creation of new secure entries as well.
Tags: blogs, documents, download, encrypted, files, mobile site, pgp, webaides
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
 LuxSci SecureForm service uniquely enables web sites and PDF forms to post their data and files to a secure URL and have that data automatically securely emailed to one or more recipients, uploaded to an S/FTP site, archived in an online collaborative WebAides file storage space, and/or saved to a MySQL database. With a few clicks and minimal changes to existing forms, customers can have sophisticated and secure forwarding, processing, and storage of their form posts, including re-filling the posted data into template PDF, html, xml, and other files.
Collaborative Access to Encrypted Archived Form Data
When using SecureForm to store copies of uploaded form data to an online Documents WebAide, you can choose to have that data automatically encrypted so that only the “recipient” of the encryption (i.e. one of your users) can ever open it. Not even LuxSci’s technical support staff would be able to access this data unless you specifically allowed it.
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Tags: encrypted, group, pgp, secureform, webaide
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Read receipt requests are generally an extremely unreliable way to find out if your recipient has read an email messages that you have sent to him/her.
Why? Because
- Some email programs do not support read receipts, and thus messages viewed with these would never send you a notice that the message was read.
- Programs that do support read receipts allow the user to respond to them “always”, “never”, or “ask each time” … with “asking each time” being the default. As a result, users often will decline your request for a receipt that you have read the message.
However, when messages are sent via LuxSci’s SecureLine Escrow encryption service, read receipts are guaranteed to work.
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Tags: delivery notice, encrypted, escrow, notice, read receipt, retract, retracting, secureline
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
 It’s the classic problem of having “too many keys”. You have accounts on many different web sites. Some are small and relatively insignificant, from a security point of view, like blogs or shopping sites. Some are large and sensitive, like banking and PayPal accounts. Since unified login mechanisms like OpenID are not yet pervasive, you must remember the usernames and passwords for every single site. This is a truly daunting task.
Ideally, you would like to use passwords that are “strong” (i.e. very good, not easily guessable) and different for every site. However, how can you remember each secure and unique password without resorting to a “cheat sheet”?
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Tags: attack, change password, cheat sheet, crack, dictionary attack, encrypted, guess, hacker, key logger, obama, openid, password, remember password, secure, security, ssl, strong password, twitter, username, webaides
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
 We recently discussed email security for accountants and mentioned that the use of password-protected files is not usually a very good solution for meeting data privacy needs. After writing this and getting some feed back, we thought that the issue of password-protected files really deserves some further discussion. Many people are under the assumption that if they use the “password protection” features of whatever software they are using, that their data is safe and secure. However, this is not necessarily the case. Why?
Using password-protected files to secure data is fast and easy and built into many applications. Why not use it? Certainly, password protecting files is much better than not doing so. However, there are several things that determine how secure these “protected” files really are.
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Tags: aes, brute force, dictionary, digital signature, encrypted, excel, insecure, microsoft word, office 2007, one note, password, password protected, password recovery, password-protected files, Password-Protected PDF, password-to-modify, pdf, pgp, powerpoint, s/mime, secureline, ssl, strong encryption, winzip, zip
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
 Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications. It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation. There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation services or organizations that do not use secure email. Why is this?
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Tags: accountant, accounting, documents, email, encrypted, identity theft, password recovery, password-protected file, private labeled, quickbooks, secure email, secureline, security, social security number, tax, tax prep, tax returns
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
 LuxSci recently had the opportunity to speak with Nate Fitzgerald, Product Manager of Message Archiving at MX Logic. Nate has been with MX Logic for over 4 years and is responsible for their successful archival service. His insight has been invaluable in helping LuxSci get up to speed with all of the technical nuances of this service. We would like to share with you his knowledge and thoughts regarding the security, reliability, and utility of LuxSci’s Premium Email Archival service.
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Tags: archival, auditable, compliance, contentfast, dual commit, email filtering, encrypted, google, hipaa, message archiving, mx logic, nate fitzgerald, postini, premium, redundant, sec, sec 17a-4, secure email, security, serialization, tamperproof, unlimited storage
Posted in AAA Featured Articles, LuxSci Insider, LuxSci Library: Insider Insight
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
 Doctors and medical professionals are feeling a growing pressure to get their business online (i.e. even use of electronic prescriptions is being pushed). This includes making available protected health information to patients via a web site and collecting similar private information from patients or would-be patients. If doctors can show that they are using digital systems with their health care practices in a meaningful way by 2011, they may be eligible for some serious money (part of the proposed stimulus package — the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)).
However, where the health information of an identifiable individual is involved, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the official compliance document. So, what do these requirements mean and how can HIPAA be followed in the context of a website?
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Tags: backup, disposal, electronic prescription, encrypted, escrow, form, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, hipaa, hipaa-secure, patient, pgp, privacy agreement, protected health information, s/mime, secure ftp, secureline, ssl, web form, web site
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Notice: the services discussed in this posting have been replaced by our new SecureForm Service.gif) Situation:
You collect private information on your website. Whether it’s health information that needs to be HIPAA-compliant, credit card numbers, or other confidential data, you need an easy and transparent way to protect the privacy of your visitors, from start to finish.
Solution:
LuxSci provides a secure web form for your website. Information is encrypted and emailed to you directly, so that you can access everything in your own email, but know that the data was secure from input to delivery.
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Tags: decrypted, encrypted, end-to-end, hipaa, secure, secure email, secure web form, secure web site, secureline, ssl, web form
Posted in Business Solutions
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Wednesday, January 15th, 2003
by Berislav Kucan; reproduced with permission from Help Net Security
Erik Kangas has a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is currently President of Lux Scientiae, Incorporated, an Internet services and consulting company based in Boston, Massachusetts. In the interview, Dr. Kangas talks about his company, email security services and the state of secure messaging.
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Tags: encrypted, hipaa, hushmail, infinitedimensions, luxsci, pgp, s/mime, ssl
Posted in LuxSci Insider
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