As a CISSP, a security consultant, a professor of information assurance and a program director for security studies, I’d be terminally embarrassed to tell clients and students to do what I wouldn’t do ...

WhatsApp is the primary means of communication for well over two billion people worldwide. This is because it is free of cost and rife with features, including real-time multimedia-rich messaging, ...

The fatal flaw of encrypted backups: You are locking yourself out of your own data ...

Symantec Corp. today announced a new encryption feature for its flagship NetBackup backup and recovery software that takes the CPU-intensive load off of application servers and places the burden onto ...

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

The move comes after a rash of cases in the past couple years where private data on backup tapes was lost or stolen, said Mike Adams, senior group manager for NetBackup product marketing at Symantec. ...

Facebook is tightening WhatsApp’s security by extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to cloud backups via an update to the app on iOS and Android. This was already allowed this on local WhatsApp ...

Anyone using this ? <BR><BR>Notice a difference in Backup times vs non encrypted ?<BR><BR>I created a new job and used 256 bit encryption and it's been running now for 12+ hours .. This is a new ...

WhatsApp is beginning to roll out a new feature that will provide its two billion users the option to encrypt their chat history backup in iCloud or Google Drive, patching a major loophole that has ...