A safe harbour no longer
The United States is no longer regarded as a "safe harbour" for EU data - and that's big (and welcome) news for Europeans.
The United States is no longer regarded as a "safe harbour" for EU data - and that's big (and welcome) news for Europeans.
Details of a damaging hack of British phone and broadband provider TalkTalk's customer database are emerging.
Our previous post explained that the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is based on a narrow view of privacy that assumes it is primarily about concealing our wrongs.
But why would someone choose the significantly more expensive _Enterprise Edition_? The key differences are described in this article.
[CompleteFTP](http://enterprisedt.com/products/completeftp) customers will be pleased to know that CompleteFTP is very suitable for deployment in the cloud - we use it ourselves on Amazon AWS.
An earlier group of posts in this series covered the SSL/TLS protocol in detail. They neglected, however, to mention one of the most common uses of SSL/TLS - to implement a secure form of file transfer known as FTPS.
The most common subsystem available is SFTP, which provides commands to transfer and manipulate files.
SSH-2 uses a layered architecture, consisting of a transport layer, a user authentication layer, and a connection layer (described here).
The final piece of SSH-2's layered architecture is the _connection_ layer, which provides network services
Another very commonly used authentication method is _publickey authentication_ , which is based on public key encryption.