Archive for February, 2014

How to Tell If Your Cloud Vendor is Bull*#$!-ing You About Security, Part 1: SSL

Last week Apple released an emergency security patch for iOS devices that addressed an implementation issue in their use of Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Basically the flaw allowed an attacker to masquerade as any secure site (such as Google, Amazon,

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How to Send Encrypted Email

Easily one of the most common questions we get is how to send encrypted email. In this article, I’ll show you a quick and easy way to encrypt data so you can send it using any email client (Microsoft Outlook,

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Protecting ePHI Data on Mobile Applications for HIPAA – Part 1 (for Non-Geeks)

In a few days we will be publicly releasing our IronBox Secure File Transfer mobile application for Apple iOS devices on the App Store for our customers. As with any software we produce here at IronBox, we focused specifically on

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IronBox Launches “One Click” Email Encryption Technology for Law Firms and Accounting Firms

Company offers free trial of encryption technology to protect Microsoft Outlook emails REDMOND, WA—February 12, 2014—Redmond-based IronBox, a leader in Internet security, data protection and application security, today announced the launch of its email encryption technology for law firms and

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What You Probably Didn’t Know About the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Data Breach

This past January 2014, the Attorney General of California filed a complaint against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. for the data breach of about 30,000 social security numbers. The SSNs were found left on an external hard drive which was

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