• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-23-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Yahoo pushes back timing of Verizon deal after breaches

Verizon’s planned acquisition of Yahoo will take longer than expected and won’t close until this year’s second quarter, the internet company said on Monday.
The $4.8 billion deal was originally slated to close in the first quarter, but that was before […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-21-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof messaging.
The code for the Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) standard will become available on […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-21-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Lavabit developer has a new encrypted, end-to-end email protocol

The developer behind Lavabit, an email service that noted leaker Edward Snowden used, is releasing source code for an open-source end-to-end encrypted email standard that promises surveillance-proof messaging.
The code for the Dark Internet Mail Environment (DIME) standard will become available on […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-20-2017
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Researchers propose a way to use your heartbeat as a password

Researchers at Binghamton State University in New York think your heart could be the key to your personal data. By measuring the electrical activity of the heart, researchers say they can encrypt patients’ health records.  The fundamental idea is this: […]