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• Indiana Supreme Court To Judge If Government Can Force People To Decrypt Their Smartphones

  The issue of forced smartphone decryptions, as it pertains to Constitutionally protected rights, is gathering steam. According to various sites, Indiana's Supreme Court will soon be listening to arguments on whether Fifth Amendment rights are being... Posted Feb 15 2019, 07:35 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data encryption, device encryption, data security, law, data at rest encryption, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, government encryption, Android encryption, iPhone encryption

• Judge Says Biometric Locks Protected By 5th Amendment

  The battle over privacy in the digital age ratcheted up last week. According to a California judge, the Fifth Amendment – the right not to incriminate oneself – protects people from being forced to bypass a smartphone's encryption via the use of irises... Posted Jan 25 2019, 03:47 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, law, mobile data encryption, information security, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, government encryption

• Convicted Terrorist Steals Hard Drive in Brussels Main Justice Offices

  According to the Associated Press , a man who was convicted (and released from prison) for terrorist activities is suspected in the theft of an external hard drive from a forensic doctor's office. The story is full of puzzling questions, including... Posted Jan 11 2019, 04:19 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: data security, law, hard drive encryption, hard disk encryption, endpoint security breach, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, external drive encryption software, government encryption

• Scathing Government Report Concludes 2017 Equifax Breach Entirely Preventable

  This week, the US government published a report on the massive data breach Equifax experienced last year. The overall conclusion shared by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is that the data breach – the largest one todate in US history... Posted Dec 13 2018, 06:55 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: law, computer data security, cost of computer security breach, encryption law, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, government encryption, cloud security, Uncategorized

• HIPAA Notifications Are Now Within 30 Days Since Breach If You're In Colorado

  According to bizjournals.com , any HIPAA-covered entities that do business in Colorado will now have 30 days to notify Coloradans (or Coloradoans, if you prefer) of a data breach involving personal information, and not the customary 60 calendar days under... Posted Nov 30 2018, 06:39 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, HIPAA, data security, law, computer data security, encryption law, PIPEDA, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, breach notification, medical data encryption, patient data encryption, government encryption, hospital encryption, healthcare

• Leading Self-Encrypting Drives Compromised, Patched

  Earlier this week, security researchers revealed that certain SEDs (self-encrypting drives) sold by some of the leading brands in the consumer data storage industry had flaws in its full disk encryption. Bad Implementation One of the easiest ways to protect... Posted Nov 09 2018, 07:29 AM by sang_lee with | with no comments Filed under: full disk encryption, data encryption, data security, hard drive encryption, information security, encryption software, disk encryption, hard disk encryption, hdd encryption software, encryption software provider, data security provider, encryption service provider, best encryption