Kingston’s latest encrypted external SSD is designed to be as friendly for consumers to use as it is devilish for hackers to try and crack. The new Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 External SSD VP80ES unlocks like a smartphone, with its intuitive touchscreen, and then enables simple drag-and-drop file transfers. Meanwhile, hackers face a FIPS…
Device encryption is a security feature that Microsoft often quietly enables during Windows 11 setup. Sign in with a Microsoft account on a PC with compatible hardware, and the deed is (usually) done. In fact, many Windows 11 users may not even realize that their PC is encrypted—nor that the recovery key is also automatically…
You would think that Windows 11 PCs are all encrypted. Security is such a big focus for Microsoft’s latest operating system that automatically keeping stored data scrambled unless the computer is unlocked seems sensible. In fact, the mechanisms to do exactly that are already in place. Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro both support…
A team of security researchers with Cornell University have demonstrated a proof of concept attack on AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, leveraging the Zen-integrated AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) to achieve full system access. The technique requires physical access to the AMD system and is based on a voltage glitching attack that allows a bad…
AMD disclosed two exploits targeting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature used by its first-, second-, and third-gen EPYC processors ahead of their presentation at the 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21). The first exploit, CVE-2020-12967, is set to be presented in a paper from researchers at Fraunhofer AISEC and the Technical University of…
Today’s best G-Technology ArmorLock encrypted NVMe SSD deals By leveraging your phone’s biometrics, such as touch or FaceID, G-Technology’s ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD makes passwords a thing of the past in an attempt to remove the most common inconvenience when it comes to data security — entering a password. The ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD is…