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Niobium Raises $5.5M for Zero Trust Computing Hardware Acceleration

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Niobium Raises $5.5M for Zero Trust Computing Hardware Acceleration 2024-05-07 at 19:01 By Eduard Kovacs Niobium has raised $5.5 million in seed funding for a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) hardware accelerator designed for zero trust computing. The post Niobium Raises $5.5M for Zero Trust Computing Hardware Acceleration appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an […]

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Q-Day approaching: Can Ethereum survive a quantum emergency?

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Q-Day approaching: Can Ethereum survive a quantum emergency? 2024-04-26 at 17:02 By Cointelegraph by Daniel Ramirez-Escudero Quantum computing is the next most significant disruptive technological leap and its rapid evolution and funding will soon make it a reality. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source React to this headline:

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Critical PuTTY Vulnerability Allows Secret Key Recovery

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Critical PuTTY Vulnerability Allows Secret Key Recovery 2024-04-16 at 20:01 By Eduard Kovacs PuTTY vulnerability CVE-2024-31497 allows attackers to compromise private keys and use them to forge signatures. The post Critical PuTTY Vulnerability Allows Secret Key Recovery appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React to

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How Google’s 90-day TLS certificate validity proposal will affect enterprises

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How Google’s 90-day TLS certificate validity proposal will affect enterprises 2024-04-11 at 08:01 By Help Net Security Announced last year, Google’s proposal to reduce the lifespan of TLS (transport layer security) certificates from 13 months to 90 days could be implemented in the near future. It will certainly improve security and shrink the window of

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Surviving the “quantum apocalypse” with fully homomorphic encryption

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Surviving the “quantum apocalypse” with fully homomorphic encryption 2024-03-19 at 10:04 By Help Net Security In the past few years, an increasing number of tech companies, organizations, and even governments have been working on one of the next big things in the tech world: successfully building quantum computers. These actors see a lot of potential

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How organizations can keep up with shifting data privacy regulations

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How organizations can keep up with shifting data privacy regulations 2024-03-12 at 06:31 By Help Net Security With no sign of regulations slowing down, enterprises struggle to keep pace with the rapid changes. According to a recent NTT Data survey of business executives, 3 in 4 organizations can’t keep up with data regulations, holding them

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Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73 Million for FHE Solution

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Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73 Million for FHE Solution 2024-03-07 at 18:38 By Eduard Kovacs Zama raises $73 million in Series A funding for a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) solution for AI and blockchain applications. The post Cryptography Firm Zama Raises $73 Million for FHE Solution appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt

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Secure your hybrid workforce: The advantages of encrypted storage

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Secure your hybrid workforce: The advantages of encrypted storage 2024-03-05 at 07:02 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Ryan Amparo, Field Application Engineer at Kingston Technology, discusses the benefits of encrypted external SSDs and USBs for hybrid workforces. He talks about the differences between software and hardware encryption, why it’s important,

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Cyber Insights 2024: Quantum and the Cryptopocalypse

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Cyber Insights 2024: Quantum and the Cryptopocalypse 2024-02-27 at 16:46 By Kevin Townsend Quantum computers are coming, and will defeat current PKE encryption. But this cryptopocalypse is not dependent upon quantum computers — it could happen through other means, at any time. The post Cyber Insights 2024: Quantum and the Cryptopocalypse appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Apple Adds Post-Quantum Encryption to iMessage

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Apple Adds Post-Quantum Encryption to iMessage 2024-02-21 at 16:46 By Eduard Kovacs Apple unveils PQ3, a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol for iMessage designed to protect communications against quantum computing attacks. The post Apple Adds Post-Quantum Encryption to iMessage appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek RSS Feed View Original Source React

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Balancing “super app” ambitions with privacy

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Balancing “super app” ambitions with privacy 2024-02-19 at 08:31 By Help Net Security When Elon Musk’s ambitions to transform X into an “everything app” were divulged last year, he joined several companies known to be exploring or actively working on developing super apps, suggesting there’s clearly a niche to be filled. In fact, since the

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3 ways to achieve crypto agility in a post-quantum world

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3 ways to achieve crypto agility in a post-quantum world 2024-02-06 at 07:31 By Help Net Security Working at the speed of digital business is a constant challenge. But in today’s increasingly automated operational environment, crypto agility—i.e., an organization’s ability to (at the moment of compromise) switch rapidly and seamlessly between certificate authorities, encryption standards

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Attribute-based encryption could spell the end of data compromise

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Attribute-based encryption could spell the end of data compromise 2024-01-18 at 08:02 By Help Net Security The future of data privacy is the end of compromise. With the world producing data at astounding rates, we need ways to put data to the best use while protecting against breaches and ensuring privacy, data protection and access

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86% of cyberattacks are delivered over encrypted channels

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86% of cyberattacks are delivered over encrypted channels 21/12/2023 at 07:00 By Help Net Security Threats over HTTPS grew by 24% from 2022, underscoring the sophisticated nature of cybercriminal tactics that target encrypted channels, according to Zscaler. For the second year in a row, manufacturing was the industry most commonly targeted, with education and government

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Preserving privacy through advanced encryption techniques

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Preserving privacy through advanced encryption techniques 18/12/2023 at 07:01 By Help Net Security At its core, encryption involves the use of algorithms, mathematical functions that manipulate data into a seemingly random and indecipherable form. This encoded information, referred to as ciphertext, can only be converted back into its original, meaningful state by those possessing the

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Meta introduces default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Facebook

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Meta introduces default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Facebook 08/12/2023 at 15:01 By Helga Labus Meta is introducing default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for chats and calls across Messenger and Facebook, the company revealed on Wednesday. Rolling out E2EE for Messenger and Facebook E2EE ensures that messages content is only visible to the person sending the

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Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger

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Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger 08/12/2023 at 06:46 By Associated Press End-to-End encryption in Facebook Messenger means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people’s messages. The post Meta Makes End-to-End Encryption a Default on Facebook Messenger appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Apple Commissions Data Breach Study to Highlight Need for End-to-End Encryption

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Apple Commissions Data Breach Study to Highlight Need for End-to-End Encryption 07/12/2023 at 21:16 By Eduard Kovacs A study commissioned by Apple shows that 2.6 billion personal data records were compromised in breaches in the past two years. The post Apple Commissions Data Breach Study to Highlight Need for End-to-End Encryption appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Nitrokey releases NetHSM, a fully open-source hardware security module

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Nitrokey releases NetHSM, a fully open-source hardware security module 30/11/2023 at 16:32 By Help Net Security German company Nitrokey has released NetHSM 1.0, an open-source hardware security module (HSM). Nitrokey NetHSM 1.0 features The module can be used for storing and managing a variety of cryptographic keys (e.g., keys to enable HTTPS, DNSSEC, secure blockchain

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OpenSSL 3.2.0 released: New cryptographic algorithms, support for TCP fast open, and more!

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OpenSSL 3.2.0 released: New cryptographic algorithms, support for TCP fast open, and more! 27/11/2023 at 10:32 By Help Net Security OpenSSL is a full-featured toolkit for general-purpose cryptography and secure communication. The final version of OpenSSL 3.2.0 is now available. Major changes in OpenSSL 3.2.0 This release incorporates the following potentially significant or incompatible changes:

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