eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. Cloud service providers (CSPs) try to make it simple and easy for their users to comply with data privacy regulations and mandates. Bring your own encryption (BYOE). Tue, 11/16/2021 - 06:15. And, even experts make mistakes.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 29, 2023

New online safety bill could force encrypted messaging apps like iMessage and WhatsApp to scan for child abuse material, but platforms warn about privacy implications.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Quantum Resistant Encryption – Are You Ready? When functional quantum computing becomes available it is anticipated to make many current asymmetric encryption ciphers (RSA, Diffie-Hellman, ECC etc.) Learn more about Thales solutions for quantum resistant encryption. Encryption. Tue, 11/02/2021 - 09:10. .

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

The facts aren’t news, but Zoom will pay $85M — to the class-action attorneys, and to users — for lying to users about end-to-end encryption, and for giving user data to Facebook and Google without consent.

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Data Breach Today

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Bill 'Poses a serious threat' to end-to-end encryption, Apple Says U.S. tech companies are stepping up warnings to British lawmakers over a government proposal they say will fatally weaken security and privacy protections for users.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR, the EU’s flagship data privacy and “right to be forgotten” regulation, has made the stakes of a data breach higher than ever. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) effective Jan.

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Data Breach Today

APRIL 3, 2023

A 3-month-old federal law meant to future-proof federal computers from quantum computer decryption will have an effect on healthcare sector entities, too, says Mac McMillan, founder and CEO emeritus of privacy and security consulting firm CynergisTek.

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WIRED Threat Level

MARCH 21, 2024

Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But in one of the biggest deployments of post-quantum encryption so far, Apple is bringing the technology to iMessage. Useful quantum computers aren’t a reality—yet.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Details here , and tech details here (for messages in transit) and here (for messages in storage) Rollout to everyone will take months, but it’s a good day for both privacy and security. It’s happened. Slashdot thread.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 26, 2022

Even the most advanced and sophisticated security tools are failing to protect against ransomware and data exfiltration, according to a new report from data encryption vendor Titaniam. Raman says the emerging technology of choice to defend against data exfiltration and extortion attacks is encryption-in-use.

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The Guardian Data Protection

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Users can set encryption key for chats on Google Drive or iCloud to prevent authorities demanding access from provider WhatsApp is allowing users to encrypt their backed-up chats, making them unreadable without access to a password or 64-digit encryption key.

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Dark Reading

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The ability to perform complex calculations on encrypted data promises a new level of privacy and data security for companies in the public and private sectors. So when can they get started?

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 2, 2021

A new form of agile cryptography must get established in order to robustly preserve privacy and security as all this raw data gets put to commercial use. PKI is the authentication and encryption framework on which the Internet is built. And this is where attribute-based encryption – ABE — enters the picture.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

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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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

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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Data Breach Today

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Investigators Find Encryption, Monitoring, Logging and Whitelisting Failures Inadequate database and privileged account monitoring, incomplete multi-factor authentication and insufficient use of encryption: Britain's privacy regulator has cited a raft of failures that contributed to the four-year breach of the Starwood guest reservation system discovered (..)

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can now implement and maintain encryption with minimal impact. However, their integration raises challenges around security, privacy, and the reliability of the underlying infrastructure. Encryption is best practice to ensure cybercriminals do not gain access to your business’s sensitive data. Initial encryption.

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The Guardian Data Protection

JUNE 13, 2021

Will Cathcart likens governments’ stance to insisting a 1984 telescreen be installed in every living room Government attacks on WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption are akin to demands that an Orwellian telescreen be installed in every living room, the app’s head has said as it launches a major advertising campaign in defence of privacy.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. The post Google discloses a severe flaw in widely used Libgcrypt encryption library appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Libgcrypt).

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WIRED Threat Level

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Mark Zuckerberg personally promised that the privacy feature would launch by default on Messenger and Instagram chat. WIRED goes behind the scenes of the company’s colossal effort to get it right.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

However, healthcare data ranks at the top of the list for needing improvements in security and privacy protections. However, M&A is a complex undertaking, and integrating and consolidating IT, cybersecurity and data privacy infrastructure only adds to the challenge. Zero trust is an all-inclusive security and privacy architecture.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One cryptography expert said that 'serious flaws' in the way Samsung phones encrypt sensitive material, as revealed by academics, are 'embarrassingly bad.'.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 29, 2022

How the new Spirion-Thales partnership enables sensitive-data-centric encryption. Encryption achieves this goal by making the data readable only to those individuals with the proper access levels. It’s a similar overreach to encrypt all the data your company collects, but many organizations are doing just that.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. An extension of the celebration for Data Protection Day in Europe, Data Privacy Day functions as the signature event of the National Cyber Security Centre’s ongoing education and awareness efforts surrounding online privacy. Encryption. Key Management.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 29, 2021

After Consulting With VTC Providers, Authorities Recommend End-to-End Encryption Six national data protection and privacy authorities – from Australia, Canada, Gibraltar, Hong Kong SAR, China and Switzerland - have joined with the U.K.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 8, 2020

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the implementation of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and its availability starting next week. The popular Video conferencing platform Zoom announced the availability of the end-to-end encryption (E2EE) starting next week. ” reads the post published by the company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2022

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. Data privacy and security: a delicate balance. Here’s where privacy and security must balance.

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WIRED Threat Level

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

As the Signal protocol becomes the industry standard, it's worth understanding what sets it apart from other forms of end-to-end encrypted messaging.

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Dark Reading

APRIL 30, 2019

New tools, such as Compliance Manager and Advanced Message Encryption, aim to give businesses more options for data privacy.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 18, 2022

Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” ” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 4, 2021

The Cloud Trust Paradox: Keeping Control of Data & Encryption Keys in the Cloud. It is as important as privacy, security and compliance. With customers increasingly being less trusting of how companies store and process their data in the cloud, encrypting this data and controlling the encryption keys is essential for building trust.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Homomorphic encryption has long been something of a Holy Grail in cryptography. Related: Post-quantum cryptography on the horizon For decades, some of our smartest mathematicians and computer scientists have struggled to derive a third way to keep data encrypted — not just the two classical ways, at rest and in transit.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 20, 2022

Future quantum computers will decrypt encrypted data, so businesses feel pressure to find quantum-resistant security solutions for data transmission. Wells Fargo Bank's Peter Bordow discusses the state of quantum computing, approaches to quantum security, and privacy-enhancing technologies.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

On August 8, 2023, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission approved 205 CMR 257: Sports Wagering Data Privacy , a set of regulations designed to create new rights and obligations with respect to sports betting operators’ use of patrons’ Confidential Information or Personally Identifiable Information.

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