Encryption still best way to protect data -- despite NSA

Computerworld Security: September 09, 2013
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Encryption still best way to protect data -- despite NSA

Though the National Security Agency spends billions of dollars to crack
encryption technologies, security experts maintain that properly implemented,
encryption is still the best way to maintain online privacy.
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IN THIS ISSUE

1. Trust no one, advises security expert after NSA revelations
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2. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does Windows 8 help the government to spy on us?
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3. Security Manager's Journal: Two big goals for 2014 budget won't require a lot of money
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4. Antone Gonsalves: Crooks use botnet-for-rent to target Android users
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Trust no one, advises security expert after NSA revelations

The U.S. National Security Agency's efforts to defeat encrypted Internet
communications, detailed in news stories this week, are an attack on the
security of the Internet and on users' trust in the network, some security
experts said.
http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8722742/823929835/629599/30/

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols: Does Windows 8 help the government to spy on us?

TPM has always sounded like a good idea. But the problem with 'trusted
computing' has alwasy been knowing how trustworthy it is.
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Security Manager's Journal: Two big goals for 2014 budget won't require a lot of money

Hardening the core will leverage many existing technologies.
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Antone Gonsalves: Crooks use botnet-for-rent to target Android users


Creators of the most sophisticated Android malware to date are renting part of
a mobile botnet to spread their brainchild to Android smartphones.
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