The move comes after a rash of cases in the past couple years where private data on backup tapes was lost or stolen, said Mike Adams, senior group manager for NetBackup product marketing at Symantec. ...

WhatsApp is the primary means of communication for well over two billion people worldwide. This is because it is free of cost and rife with features, including real-time multimedia-rich messaging, ...

Symantec Corp. today announced a new encryption feature for its flagship NetBackup backup and recovery software that takes the CPU-intensive load off of application servers and places the burden onto ...

Facebook is tightening WhatsApp’s security by extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to cloud backups via an update to the app on iOS and Android. This was already allowed this on local WhatsApp ...

Data resilience extends beyond routine backups. While more than 90% of organizations have a backup strategy, nearly one-third fail to recover all data during a breach. Jon Fielding, managing director ...

Losing my iPhone or having my iPhone stolen is a nightmare of mine. I hope it never happens. That's why I try to prepare for the eventuality of having all my data gone in an instant. I back up my ...

Earlier this year, Spectra Logic became the first vendor to offer tape libraries with hardware encryption. After reviewing a Spectra T120 with LTO3 (Linear Tape-Open 3) drives and hardware encryption, ...

WhatsApp is the mobile messaging backbone of much of the global population, and all of its users just got an added layer of privacy protection. On the WhatsApp blog, the Facebook-owned messaging app ...

A view of NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. (Photo credit: NIST) The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced an algorithm that could serve as a second line of defense to ensure ...

I recently changed jobs and had to swap out work-provided laptops (MacBook Pros). Both setups involve a main SSD + HDD. The iPhone was backing up to the iCloud and locally to the laptop using the ...

In today's digital age, keeping your personal notes secure is of utmost importance. With smartphones being the go-to device ...