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Google’s 2FA app update lacks end-to-end encryption, researchers find

Tech Republic Security

Data synced between devices with the new Google Authenticator app update could be viewed by third parties. The post Google’s 2FA app update lacks end-to-end encryption, researchers find appeared first on TechRepublic. Google says the app works as planned.

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Three Strategies for Big Data Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The 2018 Thales Data Threat Report (DTR) has great information on Big Data use and security. We surveyed more than 1,200 senior security executives from around the world, and virtually all (99%) report they plan to use Big Data this year. Top Big Data Security Concerns. Big Data is unstructured.

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Best Encryption Software for 2022

eSecurity Planet

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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MY TAKE: Why monetizing data lakes will require applying ‘attribute-based’ access rules to encryption

The Last Watchdog

They outlined why something called attribute-based encryption, or ABE, has emerged as the basis for a new form of agile cryptography that we will need in order to kick digital transformation into high gear. Data lakes continue to swell because each second of every day, every human, on average, is creating 1.7 megabytes of fresh data.

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GCHQ on Quantum Key Distribution

Schneier on Security

The UK's GCHQ delivers a brutally blunt assessment of quantum key distribution: QKD protocols address only the problem of agreeing keys for encrypting data. QKD technology cannot replace the flexible authentication mechanisms provided by contemporary public key signatures. I agree with them.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Big Data and Identity Management

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

In this age of big data, the concept is fitting, because this kind of information is increasingly being used to identify individuals and even machines. For years identity management has relied on three factors for authentication: What one knows (passwords). Big Data Analytics. What one has (tokens).

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The Future of Payments Security

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Criminals use personal and financial data to impersonate customers and add apparent authenticity to a scam. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA). Table 1: Strong Customer Authentication Factors. These mechanisms should allow capturing of the following information: lists of compromised or stolen authentication elements.

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