encryption
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Everyone Will Be Able to Encrypt Their iCloud Backups Soon
The company introduced new user security measures that will protect iCloud accounts via end-to-end encryption, closing a backdoor used to read iMessages.
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Supposedly Quantum-Proof Encryption Cracked by Basic-Arse PC
It turns out that breaking an encryption algorithm meant to withstand the most powerful cyberattacks imaginable might not be as tough as we’d been led to believe. In a paper published over the weekend, researchers demonstrated that a PC with a single-core processor (weaker than a decent laptop) could break a “post-quantum” algorithm that had been…
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Systems Are ‘Guarding’ Your Data in Cyberspace but Who Is Guarding These Guards?
We use internet-connected devices to access our bank accounts, keep our transport systems moving, communicate with our colleagues, listen to music, undertake commercially sensitive tasks – and order pizza. Digital security is integral to our lives, every day. And as our IT systems become more complex, the potential for vulnerabilities increases. More and more organisations…
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Police Group Says Biden’s FCC Nominee Is Too Dangerous Because, Uh, Encryption
The National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), an organisation that represents hundreds of thousands of cops across the country, is hopping mad about President Joe Biden’s nominee to the governing board of the Federal Communications Commission. And no, their stated reasons don’t make a lot of sense.