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Evervault to expand as founder urges encryption not regulation – The Irish Times
Evervault, the much-hyped data security company founded by former BT Young Scientist award-winner Shane Curran, is to more than double its headcount in the coming months.
Speaking to The Irish Times, Mr Curran (21), whose company last year raised $16 million (13.2 million) from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, said he intends to grow employee numbers by about 20 people over the next year. The business currently employs eight people.
Basically the plan is to keep hiring forever, he said.
Founded in June 2018 when Mr Curran was 18 years old, Evervault is focused on building a ground-breaking data-privacy interface that developers can use when creating software. It provides simple developer tools to deploy applications in hardware-hardened containers, enabling clients to focus on building products and not security.
Evervault has its origins in a BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition project, qCrypt, which involved research in cryptography and data privacy. Mr Curran won top prize in the 2017 competition.
The start-ups solution is still not publicly available, although a small number of companies such as drone delivery company Manna, are using it.
Evervault recorded a $279,946 (232,891) loss in its first year of operations.
The idea behind the company is to ensure data is secured from the outset rather than being an afterthought. According to Mr Curran, doing this not only ensures greater safety in terms of data privacy, it also renders regulation redundant.
Encrypting all data is the ultimate goal for us, said Mr Curran, who is not the biggest fan of regulation. He claims regulation makes data privacy complex while technology can remove the complexity. Mr Curran believes that while the past decade has been about solving data privacy with regulation, the next will be about solving it with technology.
European privacy regulation is just antitrust in a trench coat, Mr Curran told The Irish Times.
Evervault has raised close to $20 million to date with backers including Index Ventures, a leading venture-capital firm that has previously backed companies such as Facebook, Slack, Deliveroo, Dropbox, Revolut and Intercom. Other investors include Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins.
Setting aside the technology itself, the fundamental product were selling is trust, said Mr Curran. Weve gone for radical transparency from day one and just shown everyone how everything is built, which is generally not something that happens in the security space.
Our hope is that everybody will use encryption but were assuming that well be successful because even if everyone does do this, well have the best interface available, he added.
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Asia Pacific Homomorphic Encryption Market To Witness Stunning Growth To Generate Massive Revenue Forecast to 2021: 2027| Google LLC,IBM…
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The APAC homomorphic encryption market is expected to grow from US$ 26.17 million in 2019 to US$ 59.85 million by 2027; it is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 11.2 % from 2020 to 2027.
Homomorphic encryption solutions save financial and personally identifiable information (PII) data. The main feature of technology is it offers security for the data by keeping it encrypted at the time of processing and manipulation. In the era of digitalization data plays significant role, it not only requires analytics tools but also require security tools. The homomorphic encryption is one of the privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs). The key factor attributed to the growth of the APAC homomorphic encryption market is the growing data security concerns in all the data-sensitive organizations across the APAC. Increased concern for data security and data encryption at cloud platform, are some of the major factors anticipated to fuel the demand for homomorphic encryption in APAC region. Moreover, the APAC region is expected to witness the highest CAGR during the forecast period
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Disk Encryption Market Increasing Demand with Leading Players | Sophos Ltd.; Symantec Corporation; DiskCryptor; Apple Inc. KSU | The Sentinel…
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Verifyle and The Colorado Society of CPAs (COCPA) Partner to Protect Members and Clients from Hackers – StreetInsider.com
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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verifyle, a leader in secure messaging, file sharing and digital signatures, today announced a strategic partnership with the Colorado Society of CPAs (COCPA). COCPA is a not-for-profit, professional association dedicated to equipping and empowering Colorados CPAs. Verifyle has been chosen to provide ultra-secure document sharing, messaging and digital signature technology for COCPA members beginning this summer.
COCPA recognized that because of the rising threat from hackers and the need to be able to work with clients remotely, we needed to provide a way for our members to be able to communicate with colleagues and clients in a highly secure manner, said Derrol Moorhead, Director of Member and Business Development. Verifyle is the perfect choice for COCPA because of its proprietary encryption technology and simple user-interface.
Verifyle is an important tool for CPAs because now more than even they need a secure and remote way to share and receive their clients financial information without putting that information at risk, said Jack Smith, CEO of Verifyle. This new partnership allows COCPA members to gather financial documents and collect digital signatures from a safe distance, all while keeping their clients data private and secure. We are extremely proud that COCPA chose Verifyle as a way of helping their members communicate more securely.
Unlike many other cloud-storage and cloud-sharing services, which use a single master key for encrypting and decrypting their users data, Verifyles Cellucrypt technology uses password-derived keys on top of a public-key system to individually encrypt data objects, adding several additional layers of protection for their users. With the additional option to disable password reset, Verifyle becomes the most secure cloud-sharing platform available, while remaining extremely simple to use.
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About VerifyleVerifyle delivers ultra-secure messaging, document sharing, and digital signatures, all from a simple, single-screen interface. Verifyle was built from the ground up to be the most secure cloud-sharing solution, and to deliver improved productivity and control of information to its users. Verifyles industry-leading, patented encryption technology gives users the highest level of security, protecting them from bulk-access vulnerability through the unique encryption of each document and thread.
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Researchers say this combo of old-school invisible ink and AI is ‘uncrackable’ – The Next Web
A team of researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have developed a system by which invisible ink and a basic cipher can be combined with relatively simple AI to create an uncrackable offline encryption method.
Up front: Remember when you learned that you could use lemon juice and water to write invisible messages on paper? Well, this is a lot like that. The researchers then take the invisible ink and use it to write a code that only an AI can break.
Per the teams paper:
The ink was prepared by dissolving carbon nanoparticles in water, which has a high quantum yield and outstanding light stability and salt stability, thus ensuring the integrity of information in complex environments.
A five-layer convolutional neural network was specially trained based on ultraviolet light excited symbols printed by invisible ink. Using this scheme, the correct information could only be read with the specially trained neural network after ultraviolet (UV) irradiation. Without this trained neural network or UV irradiation, misleading messages will be presented.
Background: Technology holds the promise of unbreakable encryption in the form of quantum communications or some other non-reproducible form of data carriage. But this is not that.
This research showcases how basic technologies can be combined to produce something greater than the sum of their parts. Artificial intelligence is a backbone technology for modern encryption, but its traditionally unhelpful if youre trying to keep prying eyes out of your physical documents (such as paper).
Its unclear why youd have a cache of secret documents that cant be encrypted in digital form perhaps youre a spy who has to pass handwritten notes to avoid Big Brother and the Eye In The Sky.
Nevertheless, plain invisible ink messages can be intercepted and exposed without the use of technological aids and visible codes are easily spotted as aberrant.
With this paradigm, you could come into physical possession of the document without realizing it had invisible ink the teams process results in ink thats virtually impossible to detect without the use of a UV light. And, even if you discovered the ink, it wouldnt do you any good because the message would also be written in a code that could only be broken with the code book.
Quick take: Technically speaking, theres no reason why AI has to be involved in this encryption system. Any two humans could share the code book and use the chemical-based invisible ink process to send messages back and forth. But if you try to scale such an operation, it eventually becomes unwieldy. You can only have so many copies of the code book floating around before the encryption model is no longer secure. People suck at keeping secrets.
But AI wont lose the book or sell it to the enemy or a competitor. Given all the scary use cases for something like this, that seems important.
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Facebook Pushes Ahead with Plans for Full End-to-End Encryption of its Messaging Tools – Social Media Today
Despite ongoing concerns about the proposal among various authorities, Facebook is pushing ahead with its plan to implement full end-to-end encryption by default within all of its messaging tools.
Within an overview of a recentvirtual workshop Facebook held with experts in privacy, safety, human rights and consumer protection, the company noted that:
"Were working hard to bring default end-to-end encryption to all of our messaging services. This will protect peoples private messages and mean only the sender and recipient, not even us, can access their messages. While we expect to make more progress on default end-to-end encryption for Messenger and Instagram Direct this year, its a long-term project and we wont be fully end-to-end encrypted until sometime in 2022 at the earliest."
The news of Facebook's continued work on this front will please privacy advocates - but as noted, various authorities have raised significant concerns with the plan, with respect to how such a process could be used to hide criminal activity, with no way for authorities to track such exchanges.
Which maybe they shouldn't have - but then again...
Facebook first announced its messaging encryption plan in March 2019, as part of a move towards facilitating more data transfer options via its messaging tools.
As explained by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:
"End-to-end encryption is an important tool in developing a privacy-focused social network. Encryption is decentralizing - it limits services like ours from seeing the content flowing through them and makes it much harder for anyone else to access your information. This is why encryption is an increasingly important part of our online lives, from banking to healthcare services."
So the focus of the project, at least initially, seemed to be on expanding the use of messaging in new ways, like funds transfers and eCommerce, which aligns with Facebook's broader efforts to make its messaging tools the key connector in regions like India and Indonesia, where digital adoption is on the rise.
But immediately, various organizations sounded the alarm, noting that full encryption would make Facebook's tools a safe haven for criminal activity.
In October 2019, representatives from the US, UK and Australia co-signed an open letter to Facebook which called on the company to abandon its end-to-end encryption plans, arguing that it would:
"...put our citizens and societies at risk by severely eroding capacity to detect and respond to illegal content and activity, such as child sexual exploitation and abuse, terrorism, and foreign adversaries attempts to undermine democratic values and institutions, preventing the prosecution of offenders and safeguarding of victims."
The Governments of each region called for Facebook to provide, at the least, 'backdoor access' for official investigations, which Facebook has refused.
The debate over the proposal has raged on ever since, with the UKs digital minister recently warning that he has very grave concerns about Facebook's plan,while the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has argued that move sees the tech giant prioritizing the privacy of adults over their duty of care to children.
As per NSPCC chief executive Peter Wanless:
Private messaging is at the front line of child sexual abuse, but the current debate around end-to-end encryption risks leaving children unprotected where there is most harm."
That's the most compelling, and important argument against the move at present. By providing full encryption across all of its messaging apps, Facebook would essentially hide all communications by predators and those who would seek to use such systems for child exploitation, which could then lead to an expansion of such activity.
Of course, WhatsApp messages are already end-to-end encrypted by default, so you could equally argue that such capacity already exists. But then again, the expansion of such to all messaging platforms, in alignment with Facebook's plan to integrate all of its messaging tools into a single platform, would greatly boost this capacity, which underlines the stated concerns.
The argument then comes down to your personal feelings on the matter. Is Facebook looking to implement full encryption to better protect user information, or is it looking to boost its own business potential, with a focus on making people more comfortable in transferring private data, like financial and health information?
Another argument is that full encryption would enable Facebook to escape scrutiny around what's being shared - if it has no way of knowing what users are sharing with each other via messages, it can't be held responsible for such either.
Again, it comes down to your perspective - will encryption provide protection for criminals, or should Facebook be looking to provide more data privacy, in line with rising industry shifts?
As an aside, it's interesting to note Facebook's pushback against Apple's new ATT prompts, which provide more data privacy options for users, while also advocating for increased user privacy in messages.
One way or another, it seems that Facebook is going to test how much authorities are really opposed to its plan.
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Boris Johnson’s Phone Number Leaks: Turns Out He Uses End-To-End Encryption… While Trying To Ban It For Everyone Else – Techdirt
from the good-for-the-goose,-but-fuck-you dept
Well, look at that. The gossip newsletter Popbitch revealed UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's personal phone number (in a somewhat hilarious way). The latest edition included this up at the top:
0ver the last few weeks, Boris Johnson has taken a lot of flak for refusing to change his personal mobile number. Critics say its highly irresponsible that any 7om, Dick or Harry could just freely add the PM on WhatsApp and strike up a chat.
8ut then the examples they give in those stories are always extremely wealthy or powerful people. Of course Sir James Dyson moves in circles where the 3Ms number is common knowledge. Obviously Mohammed bin Salman is going to have swapped digits.
Its not as though the Prime Ministers personal phone number could just be floating out there on the internet, is it? It would be absolutely insane if it was tacked on to the bottom of an old press release that he dished out freely while MP for Henley, and Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
A press releases which feasibly could still exist online. And which any old email newsletter could start p1ssing about with
You might notice what appear to be typos there, where letters are turned into numbers. Well, there are a few more in the article as well, and... it turns out they are his phone number, which apparently has been easily available on the internet for 15 years, since it was once included in a press release that was sent out when Johnson was an opposition MP. And, as Popbitch noted, he's apparently chosen not to change it.
That, alone, is not really that interesting for a Techdirt audience -- though it does raise at least some concerns about his security practices on that particular phone. But what's much, much more interesting is that a phone number is also your identifier for end-to-end encrypted chat messaging apps including both Signal and WhatsApp. And the brilliant Alec Muffett entered the number into both apps... and found that Boris Johnson appears to be a user of both.
In case you don't know, if you put in the phone number of someone you know, it will tell you if they're on Signal or WhatsApp, and Boris quite clearly was -- though after the press got ahold of this he finally changed his number, despite keeping it for so many years. And thus, as seen in the image both above and below, we know that Boris Johnson has at least set up accounts on both of the major end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms:
Alec checked a few other services that use phone numbers as an identifier, and found no evidence of Johnson on Telegram or SnapChat. However, his use of Signal and WhatsApp is especially interesting, given that his government is working overtime to ban encryption for consumers. There was reporting just a few weeks ago that a bunch of Ministers were using both Signal and WhatsApp while still being a part of the government trying to ban encryption, but having Boris Johnson being among them really takes this all to a whole new level.
It truly shows how hypocritical they are, recognizing the value of such private messaging in their own lives, while trying to block others from using it.
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G-Technology ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD Review: Your Phone is the Key – Tom’s Hardware
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By leveraging your phones biometrics, such as touch or FaceID, G-Technology's ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD makes passwords a thing of the past in an attempt to remove the most common inconvenience when it comes to data security entering a password. The ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD is a secure portable storage solution with fast, consistent performance of up to 1 GBps of sequential read/write throughput that keeps your data safe with always-on 256-bit AES-XTS hardware encryption. Plus, it carries robust abuse ratings that ensure it will maintain reliability in the toughest conditions, perfect for those adventurous types.
Data security is becoming more important for a large swath of users, from creators in the media and entertainment industry to professionals in finance, government, healthcare, IT enterprise, and legal fields. Password protection backed by AES 256-bit encryption is the norm for those who need to ensure the data they have remains locked down and secure. Ranging from a simple password manager launching within the host OS to alphanumeric keypads with PIN protection and even fingerprint scanners, we have seen quite a few ways of unlocking password-protected storage devices over the years. Unlocking your secure storage with only a phone app seems convenient; lets put it to the test.
G-Technologys ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD is available in just one 2TB model priced at $400. The SSD delivers up to 1,000 MBps of sequential throughput. Unlike most consumer-grade SSDs, the ArmorLock NVMe SSDs write performance wont significantly degrade below its rated performance under high abuse. Of course, that is assuming that it is connected to a compliant USB 3.2 Gen 2 port. The company backs it with a long five-year warranty for peace of mind, too.
G-Technology includes two twelve-inch USB cables, one Type-C, and one Type-A to Type-C, with the ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD.
You configure and manage the device through the companys ArmorLock app, available on both the App Store and Google Play Store. Not only does the app enable firmware updates, formatting, and even secure erasing the device, but it can also track the last known location of the SSD and simplifies multi-user and multi-drive management. You cannot unlock the ArmorLock drive by connecting it directly to a PC you have to use the app. As such, at installation, the app creates a recovery key that you store separately. This key allows you to install the app onto another phone if you lose your phone or uninstall the application, thus enabling you to unlock your storage device.
G-Technologys ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSD features a fairly rugged design and an activity indicator light. It carries an IP67 dust and water resistance rating and can handle a three-meter drop, and the company states that it boasts 1000-pound crush resistance. Its thick finned aluminum core aids with heat dissipation, but it comes at the expense of size.
While the device is pocketable, it is very large at 134 x 82 x 19 mm, and the plastic casing gives it a clunky and toy-like feel in the hand. We were even able to twist the casing, which ironically helped during our disassembly process. It is also fairly heavy, weighing roughly 200 grams, which is two to three times heavier than many portable SSDs.
G-Technologys ArmorLock uses a Bluetooth low energy module by Raytac thats based on a Nordic nRF52840 SoC solution that allows communication between your drive and the app. When plugged in, the ArmorLock Encrypted NVMe SSDs LED indicator light will show it is locked until you unlock the device with the app.
The ArmorLock uses 256-bit AES-XTS hardware encryption, which provides stronger data protection by taking advantage of two AES keys instead of just one, and NIST P-256 elliptic curve-based key management to eliminate side-channel attacks, ensuring data stored on the devices remains secure.
An ASMedia ASM2362 USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 GBps to PCIe 3.0 x2 bridge chip manages host-to-SSD communication. G-Technology outfitted the ArmorLock with WD SN730 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe 1.3-compliant SSD. This SSD is similar to the SN750 but comes as a client solution that uses BiCS4 96-Layer TLC flash. It features a multi-core, DRAM-based architecture and offers plenty of speed to saturate the bridge chips capability.
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