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Is it possible for malware to infect google drive?

If I move a malicious file to Google drive, can my other files there get infected? Or can my google account itself get compromised?
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How to encrypt data in cloud and not allow even the website owner to view it?

The recent saga of big techs gaining access to user photos, voice chats or listening to people's conversation (Google Home and Amazon Echo) has made people nervous about privacy. However, the importance of the accessibility of the data from anywhere…
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Amazon Photo/Drive security documentation

I'm doing some research on Amazon drive/photo and I seem unable to find any security documentation on the subject. I'm aware that they are using AWS but I'm interested to learn more. Some people say that they are using Amazon S3. Has anybody read…
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Server Upload to presigned URL

I am writing a ReST service which enables user to get a tar archive of a set of requested documents. When the request succeeds, the service should upload the file to a pre-signed URL that points to an s3 bucket or azure blob storage or a private…
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DigitalOcean Spaces for personal backups

Sorry for the naive question. I wonder how DigitalOcean Spaces (S3 compatible) fits personal backups. I found a lot of information about security of Amazon S3 and its security is undoubted, however, nothing about DigitalOcean. On DigitalOcean…
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Cryptographic File Storage scheme

First of all,I am new to security as a whole and taking my first formal course on it.So sorry if any major errors are present. I had a scheme for remote file storage as an attempt to use my course topics: I have a few google accounts(say 2 = N) to…
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How does streaming and downloading work on Zero Knowledge-based cloud storage services?

So there are a few cloud storage services such as mega.nz, syn.com and others which state that they use zero knowledge encryption. This would mean that they don't have access to the private keys which are required to decrypt and view the content…
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Is there an optimised yet safe way to transfer bulk data from DropBox to OneDrive?

The brute force way to do this is to download all data from DropBox to a local PC and then re-upload to OneDrive, but I see there are "cloud based" solutions (i.e. cloudfuze, uBackup), which I assume do this via faster back-end links. Are any of…
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BLE IoT device as platform backdoor for hackers

I have a IoT device that works with BLE and uses a smartphone as a bridge to connect to a digital platform (cloud). The communication between the IoT device and the platform is based in PKI. The IoT device has only few privileges and services to…
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Storing safely files in the cloud - what is the current state of the art encrpytion method for it?

What is considered as safe method to store files in the cloud currently and in the future (quantums) so that no potential hacker could open the file? Which current encryption methods to use for it to not being brute forced? Thanks
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Is my Google Drive still secure if Chrome was heavily compromised?

I use an Apple eMac desktop computer. I formerly used Safari as my main browser. I migrated to Chrome as it is integrated with Google products. I use Google Drive very extensively as my main repository for all my files. A couple of days ago, I…
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How can documents held in cloud storage be safeguarded against malware?

The place where I work stores company documents in the cloud. I just want to know whether malware can still access and conduct their malicious activity against these cloud-based documents ? Staff access these document either via a browser-base word…
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Security of in-house data storage vs. cloud storage

What factors should be considered in comparing corporate in-house data storage on internet-connected systems vs. 3rd party cloud storage solutions? Are the latter worthy of consideration where budget is limited? Encryption would be used for local…
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Program or method to create an encrypted bulk file container

I have several hundred gigs of data that I store on a NAS for my own usage. The NAS storage solution manages local encryption, however I am looking into cloud backup solutions for disaster recovery. To that end, I am looking for a way to create a…
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Is it good to split file into chunks to be more secure in the cloud?

I have an encrypted file. I want to keep it in the cloud, but it contains my private data. I think it would be be more secure if i split it into four parts and upload each part to a different cloud service (Dropbox, etc.). Is this a good way to…
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