GETPAY LLC has today announced the completion of the FIPS 140-2 validation process for Encrypted Phone. This is the industry standard accreditation set by official governing body – the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – and is a...
All of us who have a computer or smartphone is pleased to see the Obama administration moving away from law enforcement calls for banning or regulating cybersecurity. Our society is more dependent on information technology every day. Information security,...
Privacy breaches are in the media all the time: a major company’s servers are hacked, or a celebrity’s private photos are stolen. These stories are so commonplace that it’s odd to see a week go by without one, which begs the question: if these global...
It’s easy to create a poor encryption system, and very difficult to create a good one. But as a mobile user who just wants to be sure that your communication is private and secure, how can you tell the difference? Fortunately, you don’t have to be an...
I probably know what you are thinking – another post on why passwords are bad. But it’s not so much that passwords themselves are just plain bad; the problem is more in the way in which we implement them. Many experts will tell you, as would I, that we...
Dear Privacy Enthusiast, On July 11, our friends at Blackberry posted an article about, of all things, us! The piece goes to some effort to suggest that BP1 is “consumer-grade”, and therefore “inadequate” for business users. Setting aside the fact that we...