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23andMe's Collapse Sparks Urgent Data Privacy Reckoning

SecureWorld News

The recent bankruptcy of 23andMe, a once-pioneering consumer genetics firm, is sending shockwaves through the cybersecurity and data privacy community. Consumers are now asking questions companies should have asked themselves much earlier: Who owns this data? Who controls it during an acquisition? Can it be sold? Should it be?"

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Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Malwarebytes

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. Those west of the river, however, have no such protection.

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NEW TECH: Can MPC — Multi Party Computation — disrupt encryption, boost cloud commerce?

The Last Watchdog

Encryption is a cornerstone of digital commerce. Related: A ‘homomorphic-like’ encryption solution We know very well how to encrypt data in transit. And we’ve mastered how to encrypt — and decrypt — data at rest. Amazon might do a great job with key management.

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UK Is Ordering Apple to Break Its Own Encryption

Security Boulevard

The Washington Post is reporting that the UK government has served Apple with a technical capability notice as defined by the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act, requiring it to break the Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud for the benefit of law enforcement. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.

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How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

How encryption can help address Cloud misconfiguration. Cloud service providers (CSPs) try to make it simple and easy for their users to comply with data privacy regulations and mandates. Bring your own encryption (BYOE). So, hackers would never have had access to the key necessary to decrypt the data.

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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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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. While cryptology is thousands of years old, modern cryptography took off in the 1970s with the help of the Diffie-Hellman-Merkle and RSA encryption algorithms.