What is AES-256 encryption?

You may have seen some VPN providers boasting about using AES-256 encryption, but it’s not immediately apparent what this ...
Investopedia

What Is Encryption? How It Works, Types, and Benefits

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Anthony Battle is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. He earned the Chartered Financial Consultant® ...
ZDNet

Is encryption really crackable?

When I sent out this alert about Banks not using SSL to prove their identity to their users, quite a bit of feedback was excessively cynical on encryption technology and cryptography in general along ...
ITWire

iTWire - Crucial MX-series SSD: AES 256-bit hardware self-encryption for security and protection

Crucial boasts its ‘MX-series SSDs utilise top-level, government-grade AES 256-bit hardware encryption that meets or exceeds all industry encryption standards, including Microsoft eDrive, IEEE-1667, ...
dbta

Database Encryption Design Considerations and Best Practices for ASE 15

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...
HotHardware

Samsung Provides AES 256-Bit Encryption On SSDs

Solid state drives have a number of advantages over traditional hard drives. They're faster, less noisy and more reliable in general. But now, Samsung's line of SSDs have another huge benefit: ...
Hexus

First SSDs with AES 256-bit Military Level Hardware Encryption Offer Simple, Convenient and Low-Cost Data Protection for Windows® Laptops and PCs

UK-developed FIPS 197-validated drives with capacities to 256GB protect sensitive data on lost or stolen computers while delivering all the benefits of solid-state storage London, 1 August 2012 - ...
ZDNet

With 256-bit encryption, Acrobat 9 passwords still easy to crack

Following ElcomSoft's claim that despite the 256-bit encryption Acrobat 9 passwords are susceptible to more efficient brute forcing than Acrobat 8 passwords -- a claim that Adobe confirmed citing ...