Why encrypted backups may fail in an AI-driven ransomware era

Think your encrypted backups are safe? AI-driven ransomware now infiltrates networks, corrupts recovery points, and silently ...
Windows Report

ASUS Rolls Out AM5 BIOS Update After BitLocker Lockouts

ASUS releases BIOS 2102 with AGESA 1.3.0.0a to fix BitLocker recovery loop issues on AM5 600 and 800 series motherboards.
SecurityWeek

Ransomware Groups May Pivot Back to Encryption as Data Theft Tactics Falter

Mere data exfiltration is no longer a lucrative approach for ransomware groups, and threat actors may increasingly rely on encryption to regain leverage, Coveware notes in a new report. Following a ...
IEEE

Secure kNN for Distributed Cloud Environment Using Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Abstract: Privacy-preserving k-nearest neighbor (PPkNN) classification for multiple clouds enables categorizing queried data into a class in keeping with data privacy ...
WFMD

Microsoft crosses privacy line few expected

For years, we’ve been told that encryption is the gold standard for digital privacy. If data is encrypted, it is supposed to be locked away from hackers, companies and governments alike. That ...
IEEE

Lattice-Based Forward Secure Multi-User Authenticated Searchable Encryption for Cloud Storage Systems

Abstract: Public key authenticated encryption with keyword search (PAEKS) has been widely studied in cloud storage systems, which allows the cloud server to search encrypted data while safeguarding ...
9to5Mac

Lawsuit claims WhatsApp encryption is a lie; cryptography professor weighs in

Both the founders of WhatsApp and current owner Meta state that the app uses end-to-end encryption, meaning that nobody outside the chat can access the content. A lawsuit claims that this isn’t true ...