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Privacy advocates take note: Android's full-disk encryption just got dramatically easier to defeat on devices that use chips from semiconductor maker Qualcomm, thanks ...
It’s time that companies consider implementing full disk encryption alongside other encryption methods on their mobile devices. Full disk encryption is a cryptographic method that applies ...
Google has a long-held ambition to make full-disk encryption mandatory on Android. It didn’t quite work for Lollipop—so it’s taking another stab with Marshmallow. With Android 5.0 ...
Sometimes the answer is “Yes”, but plenty of organizations have yet to make the leap to full disk encryption. See also: Quiz: Do you know IT security? I asked Michael Kamens, information ...
The final constraint for Device encryption is that you must sign in to Windows with a Microsoft account or a Windows domain account to turn it on. This is because full disk encryption opens the ...
And among those requirements is included the somewhat controversial Full Disk Encryption first found in Android 5.0 Lollipop. Given the rash of privacy and security violations revealed by Edward ...
In this article, I describe how to preseed full-disk encryption in a Debian install. This problem came up as I was trying to create a fully automated "OEM" install for a laptop. The goal was to have ...
Is it worth using full disk encryption (FDE)? According to research carried out by Ponemon Institute (funded by WinMagic), the benefits far outweigh the costs. The report, "Total Cost of Ownership ...