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Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the US government. The cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen.
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3e525A-3 Wireless Access Point Maximum security and flexibility with outdoor or indoor use. The 3e525A-3 Wireless Access Point is packaged in a rugged NEMA 4/IP 67 weatherproof enclosure and conforms to 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g wireless standards.
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The 3e-010F-C-2/3e-010F-A-2 Crypto Client software provides advanced interoperable 802.11i wireless data security with AES and 3DES encryption. These advanced security options include the standards as established by FIPS 140-2 Level 1 - the Federal Information Processing Standards mandated by the US Department of Defense for use in wireless environments.
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RSA SecurID hardware tokens provide 'hacker-resistant' two-factor authentication, resulting in easy-to-use and effective user identification. Based on RSA's patented time synchronization technology, this authentication device generates a simple, one-time authentication code that changes every 60 seconds.
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AEP Net is an independently assured encryptor that protects IP traffic across networks. AEP Net provides both data confidentiality and source authentication for network traffic enabling high confidence Virtual Private Network (VPN) communications. AEP's solution has a proven track record of protecting National and International classified networks.
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The 3e-636S-2 Inline Encryptor contains a FIPS 140-2 Level 2 compliant 3e- 636S-1 module which is intended to provide inline encryption and per-packet data integrity.
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AEP Networks, the specialist in network and application access security, delivers infrastructure security solutions that are easy to use and manage while offering exceptional value and mission-critical reliability.
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Appliances, standards boost WLAN security When we looked at wireless LAN security last October in a previous Roundup, we painted a fairly bleak picture. At that time, virtual private networks (VPNs) were the best way to fix the well-known vulnerabilities in the Wireless Encryption Protocol (WEP), which guards most wireless LANs. But VPNs cost as much as $1,500 per wireless access point (AP) and often forced you to lock yourself into one vendor's gear.
Since then, we've seen progress on both......
[more] Is security getting any easier? Although governments and companies appear to be making significant headway on many security problems, don't expect headaches like spam to disappear anytime soon, according to security experts. Human error, combined with the increasing technical sophistication of malicious hackers, creates a situation in which security, ultimately, can never be perfect, security specialists on the cryptographer's panel at the RSA Conference here said Tuesday.
Invariably, indiv......
[more] Microsoft aims to save users from themselves XP SP2 has features to encourage automatic downloads and installation of updates Most security issues and virus outbreaks happen because people don't know how to protect themselves or don't bother to do what they know they should. In the latest update to Windows XP, Microsoft Corp. has focused on helping people become more aware of what they need to do, and encouraging them to actually do it, Lead Program Manager for Service Pack 2 Ryan Burkhardt said......
[more] Stronger WLAN security standard approved The IEEE 802.11i specification, the latest set of rules to bolster security on wireless LANs, has received final approval, according to a co-author of the standard.
The IEEE 802.11i subcommittee signed off on the standard Thursday, according to a statement from Trapeze Networks that was attributed to Dan Harkins, a software engineer at the Pleasanton, Calif., WLAN equipment vendor. Harkins was a co-author of several portions of the specification.......
[more] Intel formally introduces tri-mode Wi-Fi chip Processor supports 802.11a, b and g As expected, Intel introduced its tri-mode wireless chip Thursday with several software enhancements to the product to help improve security and reliability, it said during a Webcast.
The Intel Pro/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection allows laptops based on Intel's Centrino platform to connect to the three most commonly used wireless networks found in enterprises and homes. The first notebooks with the chip will b......
[more] First Wi-Fi products get security certificate The Wi-Fi Alliance got its next certification programme off to a flying start, issuing WPA2 badges to a bunch of products that comply with the 802.11i security specification. The Alliance is readying other programmes for quality of service and the 802.11n fast Wi-Fi standard due next year.
The WPA2 certified products include generic designs from Atheros Communications and Broadcom, so customers can expect to buy products with the badges on by the en......
[more] 802.11i: The next big thing The IEEE standard called Robust Security Networking is a force to be reckoned with. As an amendment to the original 802.11 WLAN standard, 802.11i replaces the original meager 10-page WEP discussion with more than 200 pages of detailed protocol on how to lock unwanted users out of your wireless network.
Approved in July, 802.11i products have started to appear in the market. Even though we received our test equipment before the final draft of the standard was ratifi......
[more] Wi-Fi Alliance to Promote WLAN Security The Wi-Fi alliance will use its pull in the industry to improve security measures in wireless LAN hardware over the next year.
The Austin, Texas, trade organization, which confers the right to use the Wi-Fi label on hardware, plans to increase encryption requirements for certification. But members of the security task groups within the alliance stress that the onus of WLAN security still lies with the customer.
Last fall, the group quietly made support......
[more] Why standards are important for wireless security Industry standards play a critical role in R&D, product development and marketing initiatives which in turn help organizations meet their business objectives. Standards simplify product development and reduce non-value-adding costs, thereby increasing a user's ability to compare competing products. Standards also represent fundamental building blocks for international trade and communications.
Successful businesses benefit from standards both......
[more] Microsoft finally acknowledges wi-fi security standard Year's delay - but Window XP supports WPA2 Microsoft has released native support for the IEEE 802.11i wireless security specification in Windows XP and its variants, nearly a year after the standard's ratification. The update, made available on Friday, gives Windows compatibility with WPA2 - the certification based on 802.11i - as well as a standard designed to help laptops connect to secure public hotspots.
The Wi-Fi Alliance's WPA2 is de......
[more] Microsoft Beefs Up IE 7 Security Microsoft will dump SSL 2.0 encryption in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 for a stronger security protocol, TLS 1.0, the IE 7 development team has revealed.
The default settings for the HTTPS protocol in IE 7 will be for TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.0. In the current Internet Explorer, TLS must be enabled by the user, via the Tools/Internet Options/Advanced menu.
IE 7 will also block access to Web sites that offer up a problematical digital certificate.......
[more] Microsoft outlines Explorer 7 security changes Microsoft has revealed some of the security changes to the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Vista -- changes that could cause trouble for some Web sites.
One key change is that Explorer will disable SSLv2, an older version of the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol. SSL is used to carry out secure Web transactions. In its place, Explorer 7 will continue to support SSLv3 and will enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1, a newer protocol.......
[more] Nato secrets USB stick lost in Swedish library The discovery of a USB memory stick containing classified NATO information in a library in Stockholm has prompted a meeting between the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service and foreign defence officials. The Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service is a division of the Swedish Armed Forces Central Command responsible for Sweden's military intelligence. document.write('\x3Cscript xsrc="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/adj/re......
[more] German police Skype-hacking leaked German police have hired a company to create Trojans capable of capturing traffic from Skype and SSL, leaked documents appear to show. The two scanned documents , which appear on the Wikileaks website in their German form, are difficult to verify, but one appears to describe how a security company, Digitask, was asked to create a "Skype Capture Unit" based around Trojans planted on targeted PCs covertly transferring data to a remote server. "As......
[more] Q&A with Mark Bower of Voltage Security Recently I talked with Mark Bower, director of Information Protection Solutions at Voltage Security. I have written about Voltage in the past, and still argue that the Format Preserving Encryption (FPE) it offers is unlike anything I have seen with regard to data protection and security. I e-mailed Mark during a news cycle of several information breach disclosures, all within a few days of one another. The Q&A is provided as is, and is just one expert's in......
[more] Lock down that data Another example of the insider threat to personally identifiable information has surfaced. This time it was not just a matter curious employees browsing through celebrity records but a scheme to steal identities and open fraudulent credit card accounts. In December, an employee in the human resources department of the Library of Congress was charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud for a scheme in which he stole information on at least 10 employees from library databases......
[more] Your laptop data is not safe. So fix it. The largest single type of security breach is the stolen or lost laptop, according to the Open Security Foundation, yet these computers are among the least protected of all IT assets. The costs of a data breach can be huge, including the loss of trade secrets, marketing plans, and other competitive information that could have long-term business damage, plus the immediate costs of having to notify people if their personal information was possibly at risk f......
[more] Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications(download PDF) for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives (SSD) and encryption key management applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- and the password will be needed even before a computer boots. The three The Trusted Computing......
[more] AES encryption not as tough as you think Cryptographers have found a new chink in the widely used AES encryption standard that suggests the safety margin of its most powerful cipher is not as high as previously thought. In a soon-to-be-published paper, researchers Alex Biryukov, Orr Dunkelman, Nathan Keller, Dmitry Khovratovich, and Adi Shamir show that the 256-bit version of AES is susceptible to several so-called related-key attacks that significantly diminish the amount of time it takes to g......
[more] New attack cracks common Wi-Fi encryption in a minute Computer scientists in Japan say they've developed a way to break the WPA encryption system used in wireless routers in about one minute. The attack gives hackers a way to read encrypted traffic sent between computers and certain types of routers that use the WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) encryption system. The attack was developed by Toshihiro Ohigashi of Hiroshima University and Masakatu Morii of Kobe University, who plan to discuss further......
[more] Top Five Reasons For Security FAIL The Internet security industry has seen every type of security solution fail. While there are exceptions, one can learn some general principles as to why things fail. Below are some observations. The weakest link
"Security is only as good as its weakest link." This is probably the most well-known adage. Surprisingly however, many security solutions fail because of it, as the weakest link is often not obvious. This is best demonstrated with a couple of examples......
[more] Kingston owns up to USB stick hack Independent memory giant Kingston Technology has issued a highly unusual warning that several of its supposedly secure encrypted USB drives can be hacked. The precise nature of the hack has not been disclosed, but the company named named three drive models, the DataTraveler BlackBox, the DataTraveler Secure - Privacy Edition, and the DataTraveler Elite - Privacy Edition, as being vulnerable to "a skilled person with the proper tools and physical access to the d......
[more] Kit attacks Microsoft keyboards (and a whole lot more) Security researchers on Friday unveiled an open-source device that captures the traffic of a wide variety of wireless devices, including keyboards, medical devices, and remote controls. Keykeriki version 2 captures the entire data stream sent between wireless devices using a popular series of chips made by Norway-based Nordic Semiconductor. That includes the device addresses and the raw payload being sent between them. The open-source packa......
[more] Self-encrypted drives set to become standard fare We've seen this coming over time: Based on the Trusted Computing Group's standard, hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), are offering self-encryption built-in. The key difference with these next-generation encrypted drives is that these units have the encryption integrated into a single chip on drive in the drive. Securing data storage is especially important for small businesses, due to legal specifications that require companies to report b......
[more] Hosted authentication is set to grow with the growth in 2-factor authentication and the move towards cloud computing Hosted authentication is a cloud-based service where two-factor, strong authentication is provided by an outside supplier instead of being done in-house. Gartner in the research paper ‘On the Verge: Strong Authentication as a Service' published June 2010, described the strong authentication as a service market as ‘burgeoning'. With an ever increasing number of users wa......
[more] Ransom Trojan returns for new encryption attack The creators of the deeply unpleasant GPCode Trojan have released a new version of the malware that encrypts victims' data files and tries to extort money for the unlock key. The major innovation this time compared to a version from November 2010 is that the criminals demand a slightly higher fee of $125 for the key paid through the Ukash payment pre-paid card site instead of using direct money transfer. GpCode.bn, as it has been named by Kaspersky......
[more] Data protection, hidden in plain sight Researchers from the University of Southern California and the National University of Science and Technology in Pakistan have developed an application that secures data by hiding it in plain sight. As most people know, encryption is the principal method for securing sensitive data today, and strong encryption schemes such as AES can be effective at keeping important info out of the wrong hands. However, encrypted data is easily identified, which makes it ri......
[more] Riverbed releases WAN cloud storage gateway appliances Riverbed Technology today released three new gateway appliances that use WAN acceleration algorithms in order to reduce the bandwidth required to send data to public or private cloud infrastructures. Prior to the release of its new Whitewater-510, Whitewater-710 and Whitewater-2010 appliances, Riverbed's Steelhead acceleration technology required two appliances on either end of a WAN connection to replicate data. Now, the company said, one b......
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