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Facebook starts rolling out end-to-end encrypted backups to WhatsApp

The Verge

WhatsApp’s end-to-end encrypted chat backups for iOS and Android are available starting Thursday, Facebook announced. The company has offered end-to-end encryption for chats for years, but with this new change, you can get that same level of encryption with your backups.

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Canada data breach exposes government personnel information

Dataconomy

The government of Canada has revealed the big “Canada data breach” that consists of information about government personnel, members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Canadian Armed Forces personnel, and more.

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WhatsApp is adding encrypted backups

The Verge

WhatsApp will let its more than 2 billion users fully encrypt the backups of their messages, the Facebook-owned app announced Friday. WhatsApp users who opt into encrypted backups will be asked to save a 64-digit encryption key or create a password that is tied to the key. We expect to get criticized by some for this,” Cathcart said.

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Local governments: Don't pay ransoms to hackers

Tech Republic Security

A Deloitte survey about ransomware also recommends that local governments use air-gapped system backups.

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Backups | Roadmap to Securing Your Infrastructure

Linux Academy

How many of you have ever needed to recover something from backups? Then, imagine if the backups of that application had been failing for months. The importance of local and cloud backups. We must plan for the worst, which includes a full system compromise and restoration from backups. Identifying backup requirements.

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Mind the gap – Making sure your SaaS Application Data is protected

Forrester IT

My colleague, Naveen Chhabra, wrote an excellent report in 2017, Back Up Your SaaS Data — Because Most SaaS Providers Don’t (forrester.com), which talked about how many companies have a gap in their backup strategy related to SaaS-hosted application data. As SaaS adoption has become more pervasive, that gap is only widening.

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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however. The outage was traced to a damaged database file; a contractor was working to correct a problem with the synchronization between live and backup databases and ended up corrupting both. As a result, when trading began in New York at 9:30 a.m.,

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