The Children's Foundation notifies of breach at its IT provider
An unauthorized party reached Highland Shores systems on July 6, 2026, encrypted them, and was found on August 25.
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ZKeys enables unattended reboots for encrypted disks
ZKeys stores half of each encryption passphrase off-site and requires periodic keepalive messages to keep keys unlocked.
HYFLOCK ransomware encrypts files and blocks recovery
Partial recovery of some Office documents possible but certain builds corrupt files permanently.
Paper shows AI models can hide arbitrary capabilities from elicitation audits
Encrypted circuits in the weights run only after a secret trigger and resisted fine-tuning, noising, trigger search, and latent adversarial training.
Researcher warns Canada’s Lawful Access Act would weaken encryption
Kate Robertson told a Canadian Internet Society discussion that systems should be repaired rather than given new access holes.
Buyer’s guide compares 12 encryption and key-management products
The comparison covers cloud KMS, enterprise custody, secrets engines, and HSMs, with post-quantum readiness as a selection criterion.
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Op-ed says encryption fails once sensitive data is in use
An FDD lab assessment found unauthorized restoration of vaultless pseudonyms failed and was logged.
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Paper proposes DNA-domain encryption for multimodal federated learning
Clients derive per-modality keys locally, and the coordinator sees only securely aggregated updates.
Encryption Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides
Canada's C-22 bill could force encryption backdoors and metadata retention, prompting Signal and Psiphon to threaten exit.
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Top 10 Best Encryption & Key Management Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Thales, AWS KMS, and Fortanix top a 2026 ranking of encryption key-management platforms.
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What Is Encryption? How It Protects Your Website and Its Data
Sucuri explains website encryption, how TLS combines AES with public-key cryptography, and what encryption does not stop.
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"How much beauty have we lost?" Mathematicians react with shock and disgust as OpenAI bulldozes their field
OpenAI released over 700 manuscripts claiming solutions to hundreds of open math problems, shocking leading mathematicians.
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Quantum computers could break today’s encryption. Washington needs to prepare now.
Lawmakers are urged to speed the U.S. post-quantum cryptography transition before quantum computers break current encryption.
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Product showcase: Proton Drive end-to-end encrypted cloud storage
Proton Drive showcase highlights end-to-end encrypted storage, docs, and apps across major platforms.
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CVE-2026-89238: Apache WSS4J: WSS4J EncryptedHeader child confusion causing wrong protected-header selection
Apache WSS4J EncryptedHeader parsing can accept attacker plaintext as the protected header (CVE-2026-89238).
Signal brings encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop, adds cross-platform restore
Signal 8.30 brings end-to-end encrypted local backups to iOS and desktop plus cross-platform restore between Android and iPhone.
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Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps
Signal 8.30 completes its end-to-end encrypted backup rollout, bringing on-device backups to iOS and desktop with a unified cross-platform format.
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Apple's Two-Tier Encryption in the UK
UK users who enabled Apple's Advanced Data Protection before February 2025 keep E2EE while new users cannot, after a secret Technical Capability Notice.
Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices
Google plans encrypted, device-keyed server-side memory so Private AI Compute assistants retain context across devices.
How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact
WIRED guide examines AI chatbot privacy risks and zero-data-retention caveats, highlighting Moxie Marlinspike's cryptographically private Confer chatbot.
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Top 10 Best Cloud Encryption Solutions in 2026
A 2026 buyer's guide reviews ten cloud encryption and key management platforms, spanning hyperscaler-native KMS and dedicated multicloud sovereignty solutions.
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Hackers reveal how Flock cameras really track cars and people
Hackers tore down a Flock Safety camera, dumped its storage, recovered an encryption key, and revealed its software detects people as well as vehicles.
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Product showcase: mSecure makes one vault do more than remember passwords
Product showcase reviews mSecure password manager's AES-256 zero-knowledge vault with passkeys, 2FA storage, and multi-device sync options.
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12 Best Endpoint Encryption Software Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
2026 buying guide compares 12 endpoint encryption tools, framing paid products as management layers over free BitLocker and VeraCrypt engines.