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Posts Tagged ‘secure email’How Much Email Security Does Your Organization Need?Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Every 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 Popularity: 21% [?] Wireless WPA Security Already Cracking — Be Sure to use SSL!Monday, November 10th, 2008Security 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:
Read the rest of this post » Popularity: 63% [?] SSL versus TLS - What’s the difference?Monday, November 10th, 2008SSL versus TLSTLS (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?
Read the rest of this post » Popularity: 99% [?] Do you need a VPN for Secure Email in a Wireless Hotspot?Wednesday, November 5th, 2008LuxSci 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.
Read the rest of this post » Popularity: 56% [?] Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with BanksMonday, November 3rd, 2008LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various banks and other security-conscious organizations asking that LuxSci "enforce the encryption of email when sent to those organizations’ email servers via TLS". This is such a common request, that I wanted to explain what it means, why it is good, how LuxSci does this by default, and the extra step that LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.
Read the rest of this post » Popularity: 55% [?] SecureLine Email Encryption EnhancementsFriday, April 6th, 2007LuxSci has made significant improvements to the SecureLine end-to-end email encryption service that make it much easier to use. These include
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