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Syncdocs Keeps Google Drive Data Safe From Spectre and Meltdown CPU Bugs

Providing automatic end-to-end encryption for Google Drive and Google GSuite tools

The recent news that most of the world’s computers are affected by critical bugs that enable easy data data theft has rocked the computing world.

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These bugs, dubbed ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’ are doubly worrying for users of cloud services like Amazon AWS or Google Drive.

Computers are now increasingly shared in the cloud. This makes them even more vulnerable to attacks. Individual machines in the data centers of AWS, Google and other cloud-computing firms often handle data from many customers at once. Hackers can easily attack them and try to get information from their virtual neighbors

A worrying issue is that data stored in the cloud is accessible to other cloud users through these vulnerabilities. This is true if your data is hosted on a cloud provider that uses multi-core CPUs, which most do, modern implementations having up to 32 cores per CPU. It is also affects those who share a single CPU via VMs.

Google currently only encrypts Google Drive data while in transit. That means anyone who can hack the Google account, or a Google Domain administrator can access your corporate Google Drive files.

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The most effective method to prevent this is to encrypt the data at-rest.

Syncdocs is a solution to provide automatic end-to-end encryption for Google Drive and Google GSuite tools.

Syncdocs provide security:
It encrypts Google Drive files locally, before they ever leave your PC or phone. This makes accessing your data impossible for hackers, even with the Spectre and Meltdown bugs.

Syncdocs also offers other enhancements to the standard Google Drive Backup and Sync client, too. Those wanting better online security, or simply wishing to improve Google Drive, can grab a free copy of Syncdocs.

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