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How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging

WIRED Threat Level

The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.

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GUEST ESSAY: A primer on content management systems (CMS) — and how to secure them

The Last Watchdog

Security is essential for a CMS. Security is also necessary if your retrieval system (such as a website or mobile app) has a paywall or is restricted to only a subset of people, such as customers or resellers. Best security practices. percent of CMS users worry about the security of their CMS—while 46.4

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Microsoft Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) doesn’t ensure confidentiality

Security Affairs

A bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 can allow to access the contents of the messages. Researchers at the cybersecurity firm WithSecure discovered a bug in the message encryption mechanism used by Microsoft in Office 365 that can allow to access message contents due. ” concludes WithSecure.

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Quantum Resistant Encryption – Are You Ready?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Quantum Resistant Encryption – Are You Ready? Over the past few months, a handful of Thales CPL clients have mentioned their concern regarding the future threat of quantum computing to their data security frameworks. With the emergence of quantum risk to cipher-security, we will no doubt emerge more resilient out the other end.

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How to handle a ransomware attack 

IBM Big Data Hub

Notify the security team Once you’ve disconnected the affected systems, notify your IT security team of the attack. Hackers know this might be your first instinct, and some types of ransomware notice restart attempts and cause additional harm, like damaging Windows or deleting encrypted files.

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Strong, streamlined and secure: How to get the most out of centralized key management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With organizations around the world now deploying ever-increasing amounts of encryption solutions in an effort to ward off cybercrime, businesses are facing a combination of challenges. Protecting data through encryption. Using algorithms to encode data as ciphertext, encryption acts as a safety blanket for data.

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How to Shop Online Like a Security Pro

Krebs on Security

So here’s a quick refresher course on how to make it through the next few weeks without getting snookered online. USE A CREDIT CARD: It’s nearly impossible for consumers to tell how secure a main street or online merchant is, and safety seals or attestations that something is “hacker safe” are a guarantee of nothing.

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