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Responsible Disclosure for better Security

Neil Cook on Jun 6, 2016

Here at Open-Xchange, as you would expect, we take security very seriously. In order to provide safe and reliable software for our customers and their users we believe security vulnerabilities must be handled wit...

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When it comes to Privacy, Senator Chuck Grassley and the US Senate must: Do...

Chris Latterell on May 18, 2016

Amidst a heated and chaotic election year, which is turning out to be quite possibly the most controversial in American history, it’s more important than ever that citizens of the United States can still trust th...

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Dismantling the Privacy vs Security Myth

Rafael Laguna on Apr 27, 2016

An encryption backdoor is an oxymoron. The mathematics behind cryptography and the realities of modern cybercrime mean that the presence of a single flaw in encryption technology ensures the inevitable failure of...

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Safe Harbor – A Voyage of Self-Determination

Rafael Laguna on Feb 3, 2016

What sort of society do you want to live in? It’s one of the most important and substantial questions you can ask. We can expect to disagree about the finer details or even the central tenets of our respective id...

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Collective security standards for a better Internet – Updates from the TES ...

Neil Cook on Jan 29, 2016

Why is it that news of sensitive laptops and USB sticks being left on trains makes front page news but when it comes to email security we have come to accept that theft and loss are facts of life? Just because it...

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How the FTC Made Customer Data a Liability for Companies – And How to Fix I...

Rafael Laguna on Nov 9, 2015

It goes without saying that the last few years have seen an enormous surge in data breach activity. Cyber criminals and identity thieves are becoming increasingly adept at penetrating the databases of nearly any ...

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Snoopers Charter Part 2: Why backdoors won’t work

guest on Nov 4, 2015

Today the UK government will outline new legislation called the Investigatory Powers Bill. According to the Daily Telegraph, the bill doesn’t plan to ban encryption services in general, but it will demand that se...

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What the Safe Harbor Ruling means for Business and Consumers

Chris Latterell on Oct 30, 2015

With the ECJ’s Safe Harbor ruling and, more broadly, the practice of U.S. companies processing E.U. data has been finally recognized to be as unsafe as we’ve always thought.

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Auf Wiedersehen Safe Harbor

Rafael Laguna on Oct 13, 2015

In its infancy, the ideas of privacy and open access were of little concern for the first computer scientists who used the collection of connected networks that would go on to become the Internet. But since then ...

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Regain Control of Your Messaging Environment with Cloudmark Security Platfo...

guest on Sep 23, 2015

Cloudmark Security Platform is a high performance messaging security solution that enables industry-leading protection against malicious threats such as, spam, phishing and malware, which result in user data thef...

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