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May 3, 2019

Why Your Vendor’s Errors Could Cost You Millions in HIPAA Fines

Data breaches usually don’t involve a dark room with a hacker in a hoodie hunched over a computer. …

Healthcare

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Why Your Vendor’s Errors Could Cost You Millions in HIPAA Fines
Why Your Vendor’s Errors Could Cost You Millions in HIPAA Fines
Healthcare

4 min read


Apr 11, 2019

Announcing a Free Wordpress Plugin to Protect Your User Passwords

The Virgil Security “Pure” WordPress Plugin is a free tool that protects WordPress user passwords from data breaches and both online and offline attacks, and renders stolen passwords useless if your database is compromised. …

WordPress

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Announcing a Free Wordpress Plugin to Protect Your User Passwords
Announcing a Free Wordpress Plugin to Protect Your User Passwords
WordPress

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Mar 18, 2019

Salting + Hashing and Storing the Encryption Key in the Database is No Longer Compliant — With Anything

Our users were encrypting their data, but not their passwords or PII in the database. And that defeats the whole point. — Virgil Security is proud to announce PureKit, a developer tool for protecting passwords and sensitive data like PII stored in a database. Pure stands for “Password and User Records Encryption” and is based on the PHE service (Password-Hardened Encryption). PureKit replaces password hashing with a more advanced solution that prevents…

Security

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Salting + Hashing and Storing the Encryption Key in the Database is No Longer Compliant — With…
Salting + Hashing and Storing the Encryption Key in the Database is No Longer Compliant — With…
Security

5 min read


Jan 25, 2019

Virgil Security and Twilio: End-to-End Encryption Made Easy

With e3kit, a new client-side SDK for Twilio, it’s now even easier to add end-to-end encryption to your Twilio product. e3kit is an end-to-end encryption SDK with a simpler set-up process, and it has features like multi-device support already built in. In this post, we’ll walk you through how e3kit…

Encryption

6 min read

Virgil Security and Twilio: End-to-End Encryption Made Easy
Virgil Security and Twilio: End-to-End Encryption Made Easy
Encryption

6 min read


Aug 3, 2018

Build a HIPAA-Compliant Firebase Chat App with Virgil Security

Hi there. We’re the team behind Twilio’s end-to-end encrypted HIPAA-compliant messaging and many health and IoT products that use the awesome innovation of end-to-end encryption to build a whole new world of privacy-first products. After years of seeing frustrated developers not be able to implement HIPAA-compliant secure chat apps on…

Encryption

8 min read

Build a HIPAA-Compliant Firebase Chat App with Virgil Security
Build a HIPAA-Compliant Firebase Chat App with Virgil Security
Encryption

8 min read


Aug 1, 2018

Telegram’s New Passport Service is Vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks

By Alexey Ermishkin, Chief Product Security Officer at Virgil Security, Inc. and co-author of the NoiseSocket protocol Telegram recently announced Telegram Passport, a new service that allows users to upload and store documents such as their passport, drivers license, and bank statements and then share them with third party services…

Security

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Telegram’s New Passport Service is Vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks
Telegram’s New Passport Service is Vulnerable to Brute Force Attacks
Security

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Jul 19, 2018

The Virgil Security Team Stops at Webit Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria

The Virgil World Tour made its first international stop in Sofia! The city has been called “a hidden gem” by VentureBeat, and the “digital capital of the new markets” and one of the top 10 cities in the world to launch a startup by Forbes. …

Privacy

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The Virgil Security Team Stops at Webit Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria
The Virgil Security Team Stops at Webit Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria
Privacy

3 min read


Jun 29, 2018

What We Saw at DeveloperWeek NYC

Last week the Virgil World Tour brought the Virgil Security team to DeveloperWeek NYC, the world’s largest conference series for developers and developer executives, in Brooklyn blocks from startups like Kickstarter. On this Virgil World Tour stop, we got back to basics and hosted a series of educational programming about…

Privacy

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What We Saw at DeveloperWeek NYC
What We Saw at DeveloperWeek NYC
Privacy

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Jun 12, 2018

WWDC and AltConf: The Land of Secure and Privacy-First Apps

Highlights from AltConf and WWDC 2018 from Virgil Security The Virgil Security team is back home and unpacking our bags from a great week sponsoring AltConf. For 4 days, we set up shop next door to WWDC, Apple’s annual developer conference, and met hundreds of developers, product managers and friends from Firebase and Twilio. One of the key themes…

Privacy

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WWDC and AltConf: The Land of Secure and Privacy-First Apps
WWDC and AltConf: The Land of Secure and Privacy-First Apps
Privacy

4 min read


Jun 4, 2018

Firebase Is Now Riding the End-to-End Encryption Wave

Howdy Firebase community! We’re Virgil Security, the tech behind Twilio’s End-to-End Encrypted Messaging, securing hundreds of apps and IoT products on the Internet today. We receive a ton of requests from Firebase developers; they love the Firebase platform, but are concerned about its privacy and security. …

Privacy

3 min read

Firebase Is Now Riding the End-to-End Encryption Wave
Firebase Is Now Riding the End-to-End Encryption Wave
Privacy

3 min read

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Virgil Security, Inc

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