{"id":5733,"date":"2018-10-17T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/?p=5733"},"modified":"2018-10-17T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T14:04:50","slug":"google-to-encrypt-android-cloud-backups-with-your-lock-screen-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/2018\/10\/17\/google-to-encrypt-android-cloud-backups-with-your-lock-screen-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Swati Khandelwal<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to secure users&#8217; data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can&#8217;t read it.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with Android Pie, Google is going to encrypt your Android device backup data in the following way:<\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Your Android device will generate a random secret key (not known to Google).<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: The secret key will then get encrypted using your lock screen PIN\/pattern\/passcode (not known to Google).<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: This passcode-protected secret key will then securely sent to a Titan security chip on Google&#8217;s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Reference:\u00a0https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2018\/10\/android-cloud-backup.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password &#8211; Swati Khandelwal In an effort to secure users&#8217; data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[716352],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-07-policy-documents-video","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5734,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5733\/revisions\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec001fall2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}