June Wan/ZDNET Apple has unveiled plans to let users choose to encrypt their iCloud backups in a move that will thwart hackers – and also impose limits on law enforcement requests for user data. The new Advanced Data Protection feature for iCloud will allow users to encrypt data on Apple’s servers and thereby prevent Apple …
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Apple announced yesterday that end-to-end encryption applies to even more sensitive types of iCloud data, including device backups, contacts, messages, photos, and more, responding to long-standing user demand and privacy groups that have rallied around the company. to take an important step in protecting user privacy. iCloud end-to-end encryption, or what Apple calls “advanced data …
Group chats can be chaotic enough without unwanted participants poking around. That’s why it would be nice to have an extra layer of security to keep all that hot gossip contained. To that end, Google has opened a beta program allowing users of the Messages app on Android phones to sign up to encrypt their …
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Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios The United States is heading toward a quantum computing future, but until it’s there, it’s unclear if all the investment and time spent preparing the nation’s cybersecurity will pay off. The big picture: Experts have long feared that quantum computing could allow adversaries and foreign hackers to crack the otherwise unbreakable encryption …
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As Google develops its open source Android mobile operating system, the “original equipment manufacturers” who make Android smartphones, such as Samsung, play an important role in adapting and securing the operating system for their devices. But a new discovery that Google made public on Thursday reveals that a number of digital certificates used by vendors …
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