A Canadian outfit called Peerio has put its eponymous secure messaging and cloud storage app into public beta, promising a much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption. Peerio… Read more »
You may recall that Cloudera and Hortonworks each acquired Hadoop security companies last year. Hortonworks acquired XA Secure and Cloudera acquired Gazzang. I covered the XA Secure acquisition in a post on this blog and… Read more »
As large-scale data breaches become more commonplace, Ionic Security is betting that encryption is the way to go for enterprises to protect themselves, and its taken in a $40.1 million series… Read more »
The British prime minister David Cameron has suggested that if his Conservative Party wins the upcoming general election, it will not allow encrypted communications that cannot be read by the security… Read more »
Microsoft caused a bit of a stir in October when it announced plans for big cloud servers with up to 32 cores, 450 gigabytes of RAM and 6.5 terabytes of local SSD… Read more »
The German encrypted email service Tutanota has released its iOS app, weeks after its Android app came out. The delay in the release of the iOS app was apparently due to… Read more »
If you’re looking for another reason to hate Gogo, the much-criticized ISP of the skies, then it just provided one. Neowin revealed on Monday that the Gogo is messing with the… Read more »
The British government is considering a program that would see the most promising tech graduates spend some time working for the GCHQ signals intelligence agency, the U.K.’s equivalent to the NSA,… Read more »
The Internet Engineering Task Force has played down suggestions that the NSA is weakening the security of the internet through its standardization processes, and has insisted that the nature of those… Read more »
Google has updated its experimental End-to-End email encryption plugin for Chrome and moved the project to GitHub. The firm said in a Tuesday blog post that it had “always believed strongly… Read more »