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Microsoft announced today the general availability of end-to-end encryption support for one-to-one Microsoft Teams calls. "Once IT has configured the policy and enabled it for selected users, those selected users will still need to turn on end-to-end encryption in their Teams settings. IT retains the ability to disable E2EE for one-to-one Teams calls as necessary."
Britain's Online Safety Bill is being enthusiastically endorsed in a "Manifesto" issued today by MPs who were tasked with scrutinising its controversial contents. Parliament's Joint Committee on the Online Safety Bill published the report declaring the bill would let government ministers "Call time on the Wild West online."
"Most companies in the encryption industry are pretty hard-coded: They have adopted a specific type of encryption and a specific type of user authentication. We haven't limited ourselves like that, and this is what makes us so well suited for the enterprise space," Echoworx CEO Michael Ginsberg notes. Finally, another big difference between the Echoworx platform and other providers' email encryption offerings is that for the latter, email encryption is part of or an add-on to a larger security product, while Echoworx is a pure play, dedicated email encryption provider.
According to Jens Zimmermann, the German coalition negotiations had made it "Quite clear" that the incoming government of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the business-friendly liberal FDP would reject "The weakening of encryption, which is being attempted under the guise of the fight against child abuse" by the coalition partners. Which are already enshrined in the interim solution of the ePrivacy Regulation, for example, "Diametrically contradict the character of the coalition agreement" because secure end-to-end encryption is guaranteed there, Zimmermann said.
German security software company G DATA has released a vaccine that will block STOP Ransomware from encrypting victims' files after infection. While a decryptor was also released for STOP Ransomware in October 2019 by Emsisoft and Michael Gillespie to decrypt files encrypted by 148 variants for free, it no longer works with newer variants.
Have you tried to set up top-notch email encryption and failed? Up-to-date email encryption solutions are in states of constant change with new use-cases constantly being created. Access concerns, privacy regulations, and the challenges of maintaining an exceptional user experience across generations mean your company needs to adapt.
Cossack Labs updated its flagship open-source product Acra database security suite to version 0.90.0 and made many of its core security features previously available only for enterprise customers free in Acra Community Edition. Acra's features enable the implementation of application-level encryption in modern cloud applications, saving development costs and allowing tighter grip on sensitive data lifecycle.
This hodgepodge of encryption systems prevents knowing with all certainty what is encrypted in each data state-resulting in a data perimeter potentially riddled with holes or expensive overlaps. There are many accounts of data breaches in organizations that assumed encryption would protect their data when stored or transmitted.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, disclosed that it doesn't intend to roll out default end-to-end encryption across all its messaging services until 2023, pushing its original plans by at least a year. "We're taking our time to get this right and we don't plan to finish the global rollout of end-to-end encryption by default across all our messaging services until sometime in 2023," Meta's head of safety, Antigone Davis, said in a post published in The Telegraph over the weekend.
A new ransomware group called Memento takes the unusual approach of locking files inside password-protected archives after their encryption method kept being detected by security software. After the reconnaissance stage, the actors used WinRAR to create an archive of the stolen files and exfiltrate it.