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Facebook announces WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) backups

Security Affairs

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. ” reads the announcement published by WhatsApp.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

The increasing mobility of data, as it ping-pongs between clouds, data centers and the edge, has made it an easier target of cybercrime groups, which has put a premium on the encryption of that data in recent years. Putting a Focus on FHE. The data is protected against cybercriminals as well as others who are not supposed to see it.

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Own Your Cloud Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As part of their digital transformation process, more and more businesses are moving to the cloud. Many companies think that by moving your data to the cloud, the service provider will be responsible for the security of your data. Let us examine the typical cloud provider model. This is a misconception.

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Want to be a hybrid cloud winner? The recipe for XaaS success

IBM Big Data Hub

We’ve found in this new IBM-sponsored IDC white paper that the shift to delivering IT-as-a-service is foundational and extends the strategic transformation of IT infrastructure, adding even more value to the business. In fact, IDC estimates that IT infrastructure-related spending will grow by a modest 4.5%

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Decoupling for Security

Schneier on Security

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. The decoupling principle applies that idea to cloud services by making sure systems know as little as possible while doing their jobs. Here we outline a strategy for doing that.

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Researchers’ Quantum Threat Debunked, RSA Safe for Now

eSecurity Planet

In a paper published late last month, 24 Chinese researchers suggested that RSA-2048 encryption could be broken using a quantum computer with 372 physical quantum bits. As Deloitte quantum specialist Itan Barnes noted in a comment on Aaronson’s post, “The funniest part of the paper is the very last sentence (page 32!)

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Why should enterprises prepare for the coming threat of quantum computing?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

For years, encryption has served as the primary tool for defending this information, both on-premises and in the cloud. But just as enterprises are responsible for safeguarding their sensitive information, they must also protect the encryption methods themselves. Encryption under threat.