Acquirers and processors are giving greater attention to the hardware-security module used to protect card data while transactions are processed. Hardware-security modules serve as the "lock box" of a ...

A hardware security module (HSM) is a solution that stores cryptographic keys to keep them private while ensuring they are available to those authorized to use them. The primary objective of an HSM ...

One of the most infamous cyber attacks in history was the Stuxnet computer worm in 2010 that – among other things – caused a number of Iranian nuclear centrifuges to spin out of control and destroy ...

The last decade-plus has seen a wealth of advancements designed to secure data at the microprocessor level, but a team of academic researchers recently punched through those defenses with a tiny ...

Digital security is everything these days, as news of data breaches are becoming as commonplace as weather updates. But investing in security can be expensive and time-consuming, and require a lot of ...

Cambridge, UK and Sunrise, FL – September 17, 2019 – nCipher Security, an Entrust Datacard company, announces nShield as a Service, a cloud-based hardware security module (HSM) service that allows ...

The Trusted Computing Group (TCG) has released three final specifications for hardware-level data encryption, and virtually all the major storage manufacturers have declared that they intend to adopt ...

Over a month before Acer reveals its next batch of goodies for the upcoming holidays during IFA Berlin in August, the company has introduced the TravelMate X3 commercial notebook series heading to ...

How much are you willing to pay to encrypt every bit of data on a notebook disk drive–without compromising performance? AT CES 2012, Singapore-based ST Electronics is showing its new DigiSafe ...

So-called confidential computing approaches allow data to remain encrypted while in use. That's best done in hardware, and IBM, AMD and Intel are following different paths, each with its own ...

HSMs consist of several key components, including a secure microcontroller, random number generator, secure key storage, and cryptographic accelerators. The architecture is built to ensure that ...

Eric Biggers and Paul Crowley were unhappy with the disk encryption options available for Android on low-end phones and watches. For them, it was an ethical issue. Eric said: We believe encryption is ...