Our travels through the OSI seven layers of networking have shown that each layer has specific weaknesses and angles of attack. In turn, each has its best defenses. Now, we’ve…
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How Good Transaction Security Can Make Customer Visits Easier
Every time I start to put my information into an online form, especially if it’s my credit card number or a banking transaction, I almost always pause. There was a…
Cloud Security: Why Being Intentional in Encryption Matters
Cloud security and web application security demand technology and practices that protect applications and data hosted remotely. Good old-fashioned data encryption is chief among these. The reasons for encrypting cloud…
WhatsApp’s Fight With India Could Have Global Repercussions
The country’s “traceability” requirement would undermine the privacy of the encrypted messaging app’s users far beyond its borders.
Fleeing WhatsApp for Privacy? Don’t Turn to Telegram
Because the chat app doesn’t encrypt conversations by default—or at all for group chats—security professionals often warn against it.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Unlocking the Value of Sensitive Data While Preserving Privacy
They come in the mail — ominous-looking envelopes that are devoid of branding and obvious marketing embellishments. Plain white, marked with often-unrecognizable return addresses, and relatively thin — the contents…
WhatsApp Is Adding Disappearing Messages—With Some Limits
The popular encrypted messaging app now lets you automatically make chats vanish after a week, but look out for a few caveats.
How Police Can Crack Locked Phones—and Extract Information
A report finds 50,000 cases where law enforcement agencies turned to outside firms to bypass the encryption on a mobile device.
Zoom Rolls Out end-to-end Encryption (E2EE) for Free and Paid Users
Zoom rolls out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for free and paid Zoom users starting from next week. In the end-to-end encryption meeting, up to 200 participants can join. Zoom initially announced plans for the end-to-end-encrypted meeting earlier in May, it let all users generate public cryptographic identities to establish trust relationships between meeting attendees. Zoom end-to-end […]
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Ransomware Attacks: How to Protect your Data With Encryption
Cybercriminals are making headlines using ransomware to block organizations from accessing their own critical business data to extort ransoms. Recently, the University of California San Francisco fell victim to a…