The negligience of not formatting data from your old devices may cost dearly. If we take a simple example of cell phone, one may have business contacts in the chip inside phone before you scrap it make sure the data has been deleted. Sometimes the deleting data is not enough, ...

Data transfer is the total amount of information downloaded from your web site. Whenever a visitor comes to your site, our web servers send data to your visitor's computer. This data may include web pages, images, videos, sound files, software programs, or compressed files — anything on your ...

The trustworthy channel is the first step in sending the information. If the channel have loop holes and not reliable then you may be hit and your data can be hacked on the way. If you send passwords in cleartext over an Ethernet LAN with untrusted people on it. If you create ...

A cyber attack reported last week by one of the federal government’s nuclear weapons laboratories may have originated in China, according to a confidential memorandum distributed Wednesday to public and private security officials by the Department of Homeland Security. Security researchers said the ...

In a world where the reliance on electronic data transmission and processing is becoming every day more prevalent, it is of critical importance for organizations to guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of mission critical information exchanged over communication networks. Contrary to a false perception, intercepting information transmitted over an optical fibre ...

The remotely executable flaws addressed in Oracle's upcoming security update could allow an attacker to extract confidential data, to change data or even to gain control of an application or the system it is running on, said Monty Ijzerman, threat research lead of McAfee Avert Labs....