Posts Tagged 'Gold Lock'

Gold Lock New Feature – SMS Encryption for Nokia Phones

Posted by Gold Lock Team on January 16 2010 Add Comments

We would like to announce our latest Gold Lock 3G version for Nokia phones – now with the ability to send encrypted SMS messages even when the phone is not connected to the internet. Download the latest versions simply by browsing from your Nokia phone to the following URL: “www.gold-lock.com/symbian”. Sending and receiving an encrypted [...]

Social Attacks against Corporate Cryptography

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 20 2009 Add Comments

Organizations are finally starting to become aware of the benefits of using appropriate encryption technology to ensure that information they hold is protected against the risks of data theft and or manipulation. However, with the growth in adoption of using encryption to protect files and sensitive data, organizations are failing to ensure that other policies [...]

Why Diffie Hellman Still Remains Strong After 30 Years…

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 20 2009 Add Comments

In 1979, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman authored a practical method of public key exchange, which was known almost immediately as Diffie-Hellman. After thirty years, Diffie Hellman is still used in all the best examples of encryption software due to its speed, accuracy and ability to ensure protection from “Man in the Middle attacks” when [...]

Brute Force Attacks in the 21st Century

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 19 2009 Add Comments

Today’s encryption algorithms are almost impossible to ‘brute-force’. This makes it increasingly difficult for hackers to expose encrypted information by simply guessing the encryption key. As a direct result, attacks have evolved and there are now far more threats than simple brute force based attacks. Technically, a brute force attack is still possible on older [...]

The Vulnerabilities of E-mail

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 19 2009 Add Comments

E-mail is a technology that is here to stay, and billions of e-mails are sent each day between people and organizations. Because of the increased popularity in e-mail, there have been widespread attempts to intercept and capture e-mail based communications. One of the major flaws in e-mail is that it is it utilizes plain-text transmission [...]

Asymmetric Encryption vs. Symmetric Encryption

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 19 2009 Add Comments

When it comes to enterprise security and even home security, encryption is one of the essentials from corporate security to shopping online via the internet. For many, encryption is a transparent technology that is relied upon as being adequate for the task, but the truth is that encryption is a technology that remains relatively misunderstood [...]

Looking at GSM Interceptors and Base Station Hijacking

Posted by Gold Lock Team on May 19 2009 Add Comments

Independent studies have recently revealed that corporate espionage is one of the fastest growing underground markets for hackers.  In the past few decades, hackers were seen as nothing but a nuisance causing menace. In today’s world of multi-national corporations and multi-million dollar trade brokering, hacking has became an essential part of under-the-table dealings for many [...]

The Gold Lock Information Defense Blog

Posted by Gold Lock Team on April 27 2009 Add Comments

We would like to welcome you to our Information Defense Blog, updated and maintained by the security experts at Gold Line Group Ltd. A leading Israeli manufacturer of encryption systems, including the popular Gold Lock mobile encryption solutions. In this blog, we will cover many aspects of information security, including potential risks, ways to protect [...]