How to ensure data security with online registration software

Regpack reports robust practices are essential for securing sensitive registrant data with online registration software ...

Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true

All eight of the top password managers have adopted the term “zero knowledge” to describe the complex encryption system they use to protect the data vaults that users store on their servers. The ...
Tech Xplore

Why 'zero-knowledge encryption' may not stop password theft if servers are hacked

People who regularly use online services have between 100 and 200 passwords. Very few can remember every single one. Password managers are therefore extremely helpful, allowing users to access all ...
BizTech

How Can Public and Private Key Encryption Protect Private Data?

As part of daily operations, small businesses may need to collect or exchange sensitive data that should be protected. It could be a financial transaction, a mailing address or some other personally ...
Forbes

Data Makes The World Go Round—Until It Doesn’t: What You Urgently Need To Know About Keyless Encryption

“Shut it down! Shut it all down! And pay them what they are asking!” It was 5:55 AM on May 7, 2021, in Alpharetta, Georgia. Minutes earlier, an employee of The Colonial Pipeline Company (CPC) ...
Bleeping Computer

RansomHouse upgrades encryption with multi-layered data processing

The RansomHouse ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) has recently upgraded its encryptor, switching from a relatively simple single-phase linear technique to a more complex, multi-layered method. In ...
Business Wire

Fivetran and dbt Labs Unite to Set the Standard for Open Data Infrastructure

Together, Fivetran and dbt are simplifying enterprise data management with a unified foundation that powers analytics and AI at scale. OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fivetran, the global leader in ...
Bleeping Computer

Experimental PromptLock ransomware uses AI to encrypt, steal data

Threat researchers discovered the first AI-powered ransomware, called PromptLock, that uses Lua scripts to steal and encrypt data on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. The malware uses OpenAI’s ...
thecyberexpress

Australian Consumer Watchdog Moves to Empower Encryption Upgrade for Card Payments

In a forward-looking proposal introduced last week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has invited public submissions on a draft determination that would permit the payments ...
Wall Street Journal

What Happens When Politicians Meddle With Economic Data: Argentina’s Example

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...
International Monetary Fund

New Standards for Economic Data Aim to Sharpen View of Global Economy

The cornerstones of our digital world—from smartphone apps to new digital assets and artificial intelligence tools—didn’t exist back in 2008, the last time the world’s statistical community overhauled ...