Apple unveiled a new Advanced Data Protection security feature in December, which brings end-to-end encryption to iCloud backups. But Advanced Data Protection wasn’t available globally, so international iPhone and iPad users had to wait. The good news is that the wait is almost over. iOS 16.3 will enable support for end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups globally,…
If you’re still a LastPass customer by now, you should consider ditching the password manager app the first chance you get. Well, that’s after Christmas or the holidays because that’s what most people are concerned about right now. And it’s now that LastPass decided to announce that hackers who breached its systems have been able…
Proton has long been a go-to service for privacy due to its popular mail client. Now, the company is announcing a slew of new features that are coming to not only its mail product but its calendar product as well. When it comes to Proton Mail, the company is rolling out a number of updates…
Musk held a company meeting on Monday, covering various high-priority topics with those employees that remain at Twitter. Among other things, Musk said that the Twitter Blue subscription service might not launch soon, despite saying recently that it’s coming back on November 29th. The CEO also dropped good news about end-to-end encrypted Direct Messages (DMs),…
Kingston’s latest encrypted external SSD is designed to be as friendly for consumers to use as it is devilish for hackers to try and crack. Â The new Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 External SSD VP80ES unlocks like a smartphone, with its intuitive touchscreen, and then enables simple drag-and-drop file transfers. Meanwhile, hackers face a FIPS…
Device encryption is a security feature that Microsoft often quietly enables during Windows 11 setup. Sign in with a Microsoft account on a PC with compatible hardware, and the deed is (usually) done. In fact, many Windows 11 users may not even realize that their PC is encrypted—nor that the recovery key is also automatically…
You would think that Windows 11 PCs are all encrypted. Security is such a big focus for Microsoft’s latest operating system that automatically keeping stored data scrambled unless the computer is unlocked seems sensible. In fact, the mechanisms to do exactly that are already in place. Windows 11 Home and Windows 11 Pro both support…
A team of security researchers with Cornell University have demonstrated a proof of concept attack on AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) technology, leveraging the Zen-integrated AMD Secure Processor (AMD-SP) to achieve full system access. The technique requires physical access to the AMD system and is based on a voltage glitching attack that allows a bad…
AMD disclosed two exploits targeting the Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) feature used by its first-, second-, and third-gen EPYC processors ahead of their presentation at the 15th IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT’21). The first exploit, CVE-2020-12967, is set to be presented in a paper from researchers at Fraunhofer AISEC and the Technical University of…
Today’s best G-Technology ArmorLock encrypted NVMe SSD deals By leveraging your phone’s biometrics, such as touch or FaceID, G-Technology’s ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD makes passwords a thing of the past in an attempt to remove the most common inconvenience when it comes to data security — entering a password. The ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD is…
