Dark Matter Labs

DML to Present to Government & Enterprise Cyber-Security Leaders

admin — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 21:00:32 +0000

Recently, Jeff MacMillan, CEO of Dark Matter Labs (DML), has been asked to present DML’s unique data encryption technologies at two separate events. The first event is for the Canadian Federal Government in Ottawa, Ontario at a Technology Awareness Session (TAS) in December. DML is one of only three companies asked to present, with a particular interest being expressed in securing traditional and cloud-based Government data repositories. The second event is sponsored by the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC and is focused on introducing the Cyber-Security division of many of the world’s largest private data-security firms to cutting-edge Canadian security technologies. DML was one of only 7 companies invited from across the company to participate in this distinguished event.

DML looks forward to sharing it’s unique, appliance-based data encryption technologies with market leaders and innovators in the public and private sectors.

Dark Matter Labs launches new website !

admin — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:33:27 +0000

Well, it’s finally here. DML is proud to launch it’s new site in order to deliver a better user experience to it’s customers by allowing more room for content and collaboration. Expect to see a lot of new content added over the next few months as we continue to populate the site. Thanks to everyone who contributed with their feedback in helping us to understand how to best convey information to our visitors.

As always, DML is here to meet your data-at-rest encryption needs, please contact us for more information.

- “The Dark Matter Team”

Cloud Computing Assists Crypto-Hackers

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 17:56:21 +0000

The following article, published 19 Nov 2010, shows how the powerful resources of the cloud could be used to assist crypto-analysts or, more ominously, determined hackers, in defeating “securely” hashed passwords, or other sensitive information at an affordable cost. It’s worth noting that many of the feedback comments to the article make excellent points concerning the fact that the SHA-1 algorithm is already considered obsolete and there are many strategies for strengthening password protection well beyond the current capabilities of the cloud. However, the author’s conclusion seems less concerned with the specific test than sharing the idea that very affordable cloud-based resources can provide attackers with new tools and resources not previously available with such ease. Besides, SHA-1 is still in very common use in business.

The article below also has a title indicating that ‘Strong encryption’ is being defeated using cloud-based resources and this really hasn’t been proven true in the tests performed here as hashing algorithms, such as SHA-1, are neither true encryption nor are they considered strong any longer. Nonetheless, this article reinforces the idea that businesses must upgrade their security mechanisms to stronger hashes, better encryption and more security-conscious design principles such as padding passwords before hashing to greatly increase the number of permutations (and associated computing) for possible collisions. Dark Matter Labs’ encryption appliances deliver strong, physically & logically protected encryption, for data at-rest, as well as a wide range of government validated secure hashes.

Topic Article: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/cloud-makes-short-work-strong-encryption-111910

DML signs Letter of Intent with Beanstream Internet Commerce

admin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 23:30:37 +0000

Today, Dark Matter Labs (DML) and Beanstream Internet Commerce (Beanstream) signed a Letter of Intent to work together in 2011 to co-develop a new method of secure payment data exchange. Beanstream is one of Canada’s largest e-commerce gateways with a network of over 10,000 merchants across the country. Intimately aware of the risks involved with securing merchant payment info, Beanstream intents to work with DML to increase the level of data security between itself and its merchants using advanced packet encryption technologies developed by DML. The plan is to begin development in Q1 2011 with a working model by Q3.

This collaboration is aimed at introducing a new, and much needed, level of security to the payment industry which routinely suffers from various forms of advanced cyber-security threats. DML hopes to build on this eventual success by introducing these payment security options to other e-commerce gateways across North America.