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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. Since then, interest in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has increased, largely paralleling the rise of cloud computing.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 188 – News of the week

Security Affairs

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Paper Copy. Apple T2 security chip in new MacBooks disconnects Microphone when lid is closed. Flaws in several self-encrypting SSDs allows attackers to decrypt data they contain. Apache Struts users have to update FileUpload library to fix years-old flaws.

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2021 cyber security review of the year

IT Governance

The cyber security landscape offered similarly familiar topics: there were huge data breaches at Facebook and LinkedIn, while the threat of ransomware reached catastrophic levels. You can read more about that attack, along with the year’s other biggest stories, in our 2021 cyber security review of the year.

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Another Branch Prediction Attack

Schneier on Security

The researchers looked only at Intel processors, using the attacks to leak information protected using Intel's SGX (Software Guard Extensions), a feature found on certain chips to carve out small sections of encrypted code and data such that even the operating system (or virtualization software) cannot access it. Research paper.

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The Doghouse: Crown Sterling

Schneier on Security

I dropped it both because it stopped being fun and because almost everyone converged on standard cryptographic libraries, which meant standard non-snake-oil cryptography. The paper was co-authored by Physicist and Number Theorist Talal Ghannam PhD. Crown Sterling is complete and utter snake oil. Sounds like complete snake-oil, right?

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What Is the CIA Triad and Why Is It Important?

IT Governance

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management. Why is the CIA triad important?

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The BA breach: what do our ethical hackers think?

IT Governance

Sites like British Airways and Ticketmaster have to comply with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) , just like the rest of our clients. the same web server), but it’s also common practice to download them from a third-party library. Most of the time, these files are downloaded from the same source (i.e.