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Ring announced the launch of video End-to-End Encryption for compatible Ring Doorbells and Cams, providing an advanced, opt-in security feature for customers who want to add an additional layer of security to their videos. With video End-to-End Encryption, customer videos are further secured with an additional lock, which can only be unlocked by a key that is stored on the customer's enrolled mobile device, designed so that only the customer can decrypt and view recordings on their enrolled device.
After a much anticipated response to critics, Ring this week rolled out end-to-end encryption for many of its home security camera products. Last October, Ring raised privacy hackles again when it unveiled the new Always Home Cam, a smart home security camera drone that flies around homes taking security footage of people inside their own homes.
By acquiring HyTrust, Entrust adds a critical management layer for encryption, cryptographic keys, and cloud security policy to its digital security solutions, serving the data protection and compliance needs of organizations accelerating their digital transformations. "HyTrust solutions help enterprises manage, automate and scale security controls across computing environments. Now, customers can turn to Entrust as a single source for high-assurance data protection, identity and compliance solutions that allow enterprises to encrypt data and enforce security policy across virtualized, public and hybrid cloud environments."
Implementing the measures in NSA's guidance eliminates the false sense of security provided by obsolete encryption protocols by helping block insecure TLS versions, cipher suites, and key exchange methods to properly encrypt network traffic. Updating TLS configurations will provide government and enterprise organizations with stronger encryption and authentication to help them build a better defense against malicious actors' attacks and protect important information.
IBM Security launched a new service that allows companies to experiment with fully homomorphic encryption - an emerging technology designed to allow data to remain encrypted even while being processed or analyzed in cloud or third-party environments. The new IBM Security Homomorphic Encryption Services provide companies with education, expert support, and a testing environment for clients to develop prototype applications that can take advantage of FHE. With the growth of hybrid cloud, sensitive data will be even more broadly stored, shared and analyzed across platforms and parties, exposing it to varying security controls and risks.
Swiss politicians have voiced outrage and demanded an investigation after revelations that a second Swiss encryption company was allegedly used by the CIA and its German counterpart to spy on governments worldwide. He called for a parliamentary inquiry after an SRF investigation broadcast on Wednesday found that a second Swiss encryption firm had been part of a spectacular espionage scheme orchestrated by US and German intelligence services.
A UK infosec bod has launched a petition asking the government if it would please drop its plans to install backdoors in end-to-end encryption. Application security specialist Sean Wright's Parliamentary petition comes as an expression of uneasiness at long-signalled plans for British state agencies to sidestep encryption and enable snooping on private citizens' online conversations at will.
Two Romanians suspected of running services for encrypting malware and testing it against antivirus engines were arrested last week. The services, Europol says, were used for crypting a variety of malware types, including information stealers, Remote Access Trojans, and ransomware families.
Google is rolling out end-to-end encryption in the unloved and unwanted Android Rich Communication Services, as part of a renewed hope people might use messaging services controlled by the Chocolate Factory. The rollout seems to be a last roll of the dice for RCS, which began life as the telco industries' SMS killer - or, more prosaically, their belated response to the growth of over-the-top messaging services such as Blackberry Messenger and WhatsApp.
Google said Thursday it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption for Android users, making it harder for anyone - including law enforcement - to read the content of messages. "End-to-end encryption ensures that no one, including Google and third parties, can read the content of your messages as they travel between your phone and the phone of the person you're messaging," said Google product lead Drew Rowny in announcing the rollout.